Overview
Concentrates on a select few, compelling issues
Focuses on two critically ill patient subpopulations
Accessible for practitioners and other readers alike
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Goal of Therapy, Teams and Patients
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Disproportionate Care
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The Way Ahead
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About this book
In this book, experts in their respective fields describe compelling ethical challenges resulting from these discrepancies and discuss potential solutions. The book is primarily intended for clinicians who care for two of the most vulnerable patient subpopulations – those being treated in ambulances or emergency rooms, and those being treated at intensive care units – due in part to the fact that they may be temporarily or permanently incapacitated. Core medical skills, such as diagnosis and predicting outcomes, as well as implementing treatment, remain challenging. However, without adequate communication and collaboration both within the inter-professional treatment teams and between the teams and the patients/their families, delivering excellent care is difficult at best. Therefore, the so-called “soft skills” are given the attention they deserve in order to overcome the gap between technological progress and interpersonal standstill.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Sadovnikoff obtained his medical degree from Brown University in 1984. He has been on the Critical Care Anesthesia and Thoracic Anesthesia faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School since 1998. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology, and is the Co-Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Units as well as program director of the BWH Fellowship in Anesthesiology Critical Care. He was inducted as a fellow in the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) in 2008. In 2008-9, he completed the Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and is of the faculty of the Harvard Center of Bioethics. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the BWH Ethics Committee, is an active member of the BWH Ethics Consultation Service and has achieved certification in Healthcare Ethics Consultation (HEC-C). His major areas of interest include advance care planning and end-of-life care, ethics of organ donation and transplantation, and informed consent and surrogate decision-making.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Compelling Ethical Challenges in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine
Editors: Andrej Michalsen, Nicholas Sadovnikoff
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43127-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43126-6Published: 23 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43129-7Published: 24 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43127-3Published: 22 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 170
Number of Illustrations: 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology, Bioethics