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