Ethics in Critical Care Medicine

Edited by James P. Orlowski

1999. 648 pages.

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Intensive care and critical care units are flashpoints for ethical dilemmas: a majority of ethics consults and conflicts occur in these action-focused settings. From emotions in the ICU to dispute resolution, and from triage to luxury care, the contributors to Ethics in Critical Care Medicine provide both a reference and an orientation to the “ethical moments” that arise in this unique environment.

Ethics in Critical Care Medicine is intended to be both a reference and an orientation to the multitude of ethical issues that present themselves in the intensive care unit and emergency room. Useful to residents, nurses, social workers, respiratory therapists, clergy, ethicists, physicians, and students from all healthcare disciplines.

Table of Contents

Preface, James P. Orlowski

1.    A History of Critical Care Medicine and Medical Ethics, James A. Christensen and James P. Orlowski

2.    The Construction of Ethics and Its Reconstruction in Critical Care: Ethical Theory and Practice, Mary Faith Marshall and Martin Perlmutter

3.    The Ethics of Care in Critical Care, Carole Taylor

4.    Decision Making in Critical Care, Robert M. Walker

5.    Forgoing Life-Sustaining Therapies, James P. Orlowski

6.    Pain Management in the ICU, Serena J. Fox

7.    Scoring Systems in the ICU: Outcome Predictors for Ethically Responsible Resource Utilization, William T. McGee and Daniel Teres

8.    Ethics in Critical Care Research, Christopher Johnson

9.    Defining Death in the ICU: Implications for Morality and Organ Transplant, Henry Silverman

10.    The ICU as Holy Ground, Russell B. Connors, Jr.

11.    Coma Confusion in Critical Care, Ronald E. Cranford

12.    Dialysis Dilemmas in the ICU, Jacquelyn P. Slomka and Emil P. Paganini

13.    Humanizing Technology: The Future of Critical Care, David H. Beyda

14.    Emotion and Moral Decision Making in Critical Care: An E-Mail Correspondence about Hope, Evan G. DeRenzo

15.    Legal Issues in Critical Care, Paul Greve

16.    Language in Critical Care: Humanizing, Depersonalized, or Inhumane, Dante L. Landucci and Robert E. Cunnion

17.    Luxury Critical Care, Pluralistic Standards, and Respect for Moral Diversity, H. Tristram Englehardt, Jr. and Michael A. Rie

18.    Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making in the ICU, John Schumacher and John J. Lynch

19.    Assessing Competence in Critical Care: Depression, Denial, and the Religious Exception, Philip Candilis

20.    Conflict Management in the ICU: Intervention and Prevention, Martin L. Smith and Jeffrey Frank

21.    Ethical Issues in Critical Care Obstetrics, Phillip J. Goldstein

22.    Ethical Issues in Pediatric Intensive Care, James P. Orlowski and James A. Christensen

23.    Ethical Issues in Neonatology, Kathleen E. Powderly

24.    Enhancing Trust and Subjective Dialogue in the Burn Center, Bruce E. Zawacki and Sharon Imbus

25.    Critical Care Nurses: Moral Agents in the ICU, Ginger Schafer Wlody

26.    Barriers to Effective Critical Care Bioethics Consultation: A Social Work Perspective, Ed Silverman

27.    No Time for Ethics? The Prehospital Environment, Sue Shevlin Edwards and Andrew B. Edwards

28.    Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine, Kenneth V. Iserson

29.    Ethics in Critical Care: A World View, Deborah J. Nyman and Charles L. Sprung

Index