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Three Patients

International Perspective on Intensive Care at the End of Life

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. David Crippen

    1. Departments of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, St. Francis Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA

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  2. Jack K. Kilcullen

    1. Division of Critical Care Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, USA

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  3. David F. Kelly

    1. Health Care Ethics Center, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Overview

      • Jack K. Kilcullen
      Pages 3-6

    3. Medical Futility in American Health Care

      • David F. Kelly
      Pages 7-23

  3. Multinational Perspective on Treatment of the Three Patients

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Description of the Cases

      • David Crippen
      Pages 27-31

    3. South Africa

      • Richard Burrows
      Pages 33-37

    4. Australia

      • Malcolm Fisher
      Pages 39-41

    5. United Kingdom

      • Anna Batchelor
      Pages 43-47

    6. India

      • Farhad Kapadia
      Pages 49-54

    7. New Zealand

      • Stephen Streat
      Pages 55-60

    8. The Netherlands

      • Hans van der Spoel
      Pages 61-66

    9. Russia

      • Michael Karakozov
      Pages 67-72

    10. Hong Kong

      • Ian K. S. Tan
      Pages 73-75

    11. Israel

      • Aviel Roy-Shapira
      Pages 77-82

    12. Canada

      • Ted S. Rogovein
      Pages 83-88

    13. Urban United States

      • Don Chalfin
      Pages 89-94

  4. Summaries of Medical Comments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Patient A

      1. Is Treatment Worthwhile?
        • Bruce Gipe
        Pages 99-109
      2. Globalization of Critical Care
        • John W. Hoyt
        Pages 111-116
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About this book

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.

Reviews

"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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Departments of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, St. Francis Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA

    David Crippen

  • Division of Critical Care Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, USA

    Jack K. Kilcullen

  • Health Care Ethics Center, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA

    David F. Kelly

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Three Patients

  • Book Subtitle: International Perspective on Intensive Care at the End of Life

  • Editors: David Crippen, Jack K. Kilcullen, David F. Kelly

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0939-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7671-2Published: 31 March 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5314-0Published: 07 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0939-4Published: 02 February 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 278

  • Topics: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pneumology/Respiratory System

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