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Informationen zum Autor John Jesus , MD, Chief Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Clinical Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE, USA. Peter Rosen , MD, FACS, FACEP, Director of Education, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Shamai A. Grossman , MD, MS, FACEP, Vice Chair for Resource Utilization; Director, Cardiac Emergency Center, Division of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Arthur R. Derse , MD, JD, FACEP, Director, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Medical Humanities; Professor of Bioethics and Emergency Medicine, Institute for Health and Society, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA. James G. Adams , MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA. Richard Wolfe , MD, Chief of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Klappentext This book is designed to consolidate the relevant literature as well as the thoughts of professionals currently working in the field into a practical and accessible reference for the emergency medical technician, student, nurse, resident, and attending emergency physician. Each chapter is divided into four sections: case presentation, discussion, review of the current literature, and recommendations. Designed to serve simultaneously as a learning and reference tool, each chapter begins with a real case that was encountered in an ED setting. The case presentation is followed by a short discussion of the case, as if at a morbidity and mortality conference, by a panel of experienced attending physicians explaining how they would approach the ethical dilemmas associated with the case, and a review of the existing literature. Zusammenfassung Covers the major ethical dilemmas discussed within emergency medicine literature over the past decade Presents a case-based approach, with a case, a case discussion, a review of current literature, and recommendations in each chapter An essential book for emergency medicine physicians who are faced with ethical issues on a daily basis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors, ix Preface, xiii Section One: Challenging professionalism 1 Physician care of family, friends, or colleagues, 3 Taku Taira, Joel Martin Geiderman 2 The impaired physician, 15 Peter Moffett, Christopher Kang 3 Disclosure of medical error and truth telling, 27 Abhi Mehrotra, Cherri Hobgood 4 Conflicts between patient requests and physician obligations, 37 Shellie L. Asher 5 Judgmental attitudes and opinions in the emergency department, 47 V. Ramana Feeser 6 Using physicians as agents of the state, 57 Jeremy R. Simon Section Two: End-of-life decisions 7 Family-witnessed resuscitation in the emergency department: making sense of ethical and practical considerations in an emotional debate, 69 Kirsten G. Engel, Arthur R. Derse 8 Palliative care in the emergency department, 79 Tammie E. Quest, Paul DeSandre 9 Refusal of life-saving therapy, 89 Catherine A. Marco, Arthur R. Derse 10 Revisiting comfort-directed therapies: death and dying in the emergency department, including withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, 99 Raquel M. Schears, Terri A. Schmidt 11 Futility in emergency medicine, 117 Arthur ...
