书目名称 | Compelling Ethical Challenges in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine | 编辑 | Andrej Michalsen,Nicholas Sadovnikoff | 视频video | | 概述 | Concentrates on a select few, compelling issues.Focuses on two critically ill patient subpopulations.Accessible for practitioners and other readers alike | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This book addresses the ethical problems that physicians have to face every day while caring for critically ill patients. Advances in medical technology, ageing societies worldwide, and their increased demands on health care systems have, on the one hand, led to better care and remarkable longevity in many parts of the world. On the other hand, however, improved treatments in many medical fields, amongst others in emergency and critical care, have resulted in more patients surviving with reduced quality of life. This entails tradeoffs for many patients, their families, and the teams caring for them. At the same time, health care expenditures have risen dramatically and have to be balanced against costs for other public goods. Finally, the humane aspects of care have often failed to keep pace with the remarkable technological strides made in recent years..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 be | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | 关键词 | clinical ethics; indication and prognostication; cultural diversity / cultural relativism; inter-profes | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43127-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-43129-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-43127-3 | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 |
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