Anesthesiology
Ethical Issues in Anesthesiology and Surgery
Each chapter includes an ethical challenge presented as a clinical case scenario that readers may relate to in their daily practice of anesthesiology and surgery. The ethical issues surrounding each chapter’s content are examined in an easily understandable manner for the specific target audience to improve the understanding and management of ethical dilemmas in patient care. Informed consent issues for the adult and pediatric patient, perioperative considerations of do-not-resuscitate orders, ethical issues of drug shortages, transplantation ethics, surgical care of patients and futility, conscientious objection, informed consent and disclosure of surgeon experience, and research and publication ethics are included and based on the experience of the Editor and the roster of contributors.
Table of contents :
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Informed Consent: Pediatric Patients, Adolescents, and Emancipated Minors....Pages 1-16
Preoperative Testing: Ethical Challenges, Evidence-Based Medicine and Informed Consent....Pages 17-31
Informed Consent and the Disclosure of Surgeon Experience....Pages 33-44
Perioperative Considerations of Do Not Resuscitate and Do Not Intubate Orders in Adult Patients....Pages 45-57
Pediatric Patients: Do Not Resuscitate Decisions....Pages 59-66
Ethical Care of the Children of Jehovah’s Witnesses....Pages 67-78
Fatigue and the Care of Patients....Pages 79-92
Conscientious Objection....Pages 93-104
Ethical Implications of Drug Shortages....Pages 105-115
Ethical Challenges in High-Risk Innovative Surgery....Pages 117-126
Professionalism in the Operating Room....Pages 127-137
Honesty in the Perioperative Setting: Error and Communication....Pages 139-149
Futility and the Care of the Perioperative Patient....Pages 151-170
End-of-Life Issues: Management of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices....Pages 171-184
End-of-Life Issues: Spirituality....Pages 185-198
Ethics in Research and Publication....Pages 199-214
Ethics and Evidence Regarding Animal Subjects Research: Splitting Hares–or Swallowing Camels?....Pages 215-229
Back Matter....Pages 231-238
