Three Patients

International Perspective on Intensive Care at the End of Life
Herausgegeben:Crippen, David W.; Kilcullen, Jack K.; Kelly, David F.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores how the scarce resources of intensive care units should be distributed. Three hypothetical patients, each with a different chance of survival, desire intensive care. A multinational panel of experienced critical care physicians offers assessments of the patients' conditions and outlines approaches to treatment. These approaches are then examined by academic medical experts and a medical ethicist, as well as from a legal perspective. The result is a well-rounded and introspective look at care for critically ill patients at or near the end of life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4613-5314-0
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781461353140
• ISBN-10: 1461353149
• Artikelnr.: 39163168

Inhaltsangabe

Overview.- Medical Futility in American Health Care.- Multinational Perspective on Treatment of the Three Patients.- Description of the Cases.- South Africa.- Australia.- United Kingdom.- India.- New Zealand.- The Netherlands.- Russia.- Hong Kong.- Israel.- Canada.- Urban United States.- Summaries of Medical Comments.- Patient A.- Is Treatment Worthwhile?.- Globalization of Critical Care.- A Multilevel Examination of a Critically I11 Patient.- Patient B.- The Decision-Making Process.- Should Patient B Receive Critical Care?.- The Yin and Yang of Critical Care: Utilitarianism Meets the Law of Supply and Demand.- Patient C.- Treatment of a "Classic" Intensive Care Unit Patient.- Should This Patient Be Admitted to a Critical Care Unit?.- Multiple Organ Failure and Intensive Care.- General Multidisciplinary Survey.- Discussion of the Medical Aspects of Futility.- Discussion of the Ethical Aspects of Futility.- Waiting for the Cavalry: The Role of the Courts in Recognizing Medical Futility.- Comments From Paramedical Providers.- End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit.- Advanced Medical Technology and End of Life: A Respiratory Care Practitioner's Perspective.- Medical Futility.- Afterword.

Rezensionen

"this book provides a very interesting and stimulating dialogue on the increasingly complex end-of-life issues that are so relevant to the practice of intensive care medicine."
(Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, October (2002)