TitleThree Patients [electronic resource] : International Perspective on Intensive Care at the End of Life / edited by David Crippen, Jack K. Kilcullen, David F. Kelly
ImprintBoston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2002
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0939-4
Descript XIX, 278 p. online resource

SUMMARY

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


CONTENT

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 โClassicโ 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 Practitionerโs Perspective -- Medical Futility -- Afterword


SUBJECT

  1. Medicine
  2. Emergency medicine
  3. Critical care medicine
  4. Internal medicine
  5. Respiratory organs -- Diseases
  6. Medicine & Public Health
  7. Intensive / Critical Care Medicine
  8. Emergency Medicine
  9. Internal Medicine
  10. Pneumology/Respiratory System