Ethics in Critical Care Medicine
Edited by James P. Orlowski
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.
$49.95, Softcover, ISBN 1-55572-055-2. 1999. 648 pages
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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