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Author | Edited by Gail A. Van Norman , Stephen Jackson , Stanley H. Rosenbaum , Susan K. Palmer |
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Table Of Content | Preface Part I. Consent and Refusal: 1. Informed consent: respecting patient autonomy 2. Informed refusal: DNR orders in the patient undergoing anesthesia and surgery, and at the end of life 3. Informed refusal - the Jehovah's Witness patient 4. Surrogate decision-making 5. Informed consent and the pediatric patient 6. Do not resuscitate decisions in pediatric patients 7. Consent in laboring patients 8. Maternal-fetal conflicts: Cesarian delivery on maternal request 9. Consent for anesthesia for procedures with special societal implications: psychosurgery and electroconvulsive therapy 10. Ethical use of restraints 11. The use of ethics consultation regarding consent and refusal 12. Consent and cultural conflicts: ethical issues in pediatric anesthesiologists' participation in female genital cutting 13. Communitarian values in medical decision-making: Native Americans 14. Informed consent for perioperative testing: pregnancy testing and other tests involving sensitive patient issues Part II. End-of-Life Issues: 15. The principle of double effect in palliative care: euthanasia by another name? 16. Surgical interventions near the end of life: 'therapeutic trials' 17. Withholding and withdrawing life support in the intensive care unit 18. Discontinuing pacemakers, ventricular assist devices and implanted cardioverter-defibrillators in end-of-life care 19. Brain death 20. Ethical issues in organ donation after cardiac death 21. Revising the uniform anatomical gift act: the role of physicians in shaping legislation 22. Physician aid in dying and euthanasia Part III. Pain Management: 23. Ethical considerations in interventional pain management 24. Conjoining interventional pain management and palliative care: considerations for practice, ethics and policy 25. Opioid therapy in addicted patients: background and perspective from the United Kingdom 26. Opioid therapy in addicted patients: background and perspective from the United States Part IV. Research and Publication: 27. Ethics in anesthesiology research using human subjects 28. Animal subjects research part I: do animals have rights? 29. Animal subjects part II: ethics of animal experimentation 30. Ethical function of human subjects review boards: a United States perspective 31. Research with vulnerable patients such as children and prisoners 32. The ethics of research on pain and other symptoms for which effective treatments already exist 33. Quality improvement initiatives: when is quality improvement actually a form of human subjects research? 34. Conflicts of interest in research funding 35. Publication ethics: obligations of authors, peer-reviewers and editors Part V. Practice Issues: 36. The impaired anesthesiologist - addiction 37. The impaired anesthesiologist - sleep deprivation 38. Ethical considerations regarding the disabled anesthesiologist 39. The abusive and disruptive physician 40. Sexual harrassment, discrimination and faculty-student intimate relationships in anesthesia practice 41. Conflicts of interest - industry gifts to physicians 42. Disclosure of medical errors in anesthesiology practice 43. Physician conscientious objection in anesthesiology practice Part VI. Anesthesiologists, the State, and Society: 44. The ethics of expert testimony 45. Ethical principles regarding physician response to disasters: pandemics, natural disasters and terrorism 46. Triage in civilian mass casualty situations 47. Triage and treatment of wounded during armed conflict 48. Physician facilitation of torture and coercive interrogation 49. Physician participation in execution Index. |
Format | Paperback |
Publish Date | 28 Oct 2010 |