Disaster Ethics: Shifting Priorities in an Unstable and Dangerous Environment.
Crit Care Clin
; 35(4): 717-725, 2019 Oct.
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| ID: mdl-31445616
ABSTRACT
Emergency and critical care medicine are fraught with ethically challenging decision making for clinicians, patients, and families. Time and resource constraints, decisional-impaired patients, and emotionally overwhelmed family members make obtaining informed consent, discussing withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatments, and respecting patient values and preferences difficult. When illness or trauma is secondary to disaster, ethical considerations increase and change based on number of casualties, type of disaster, and anticipated life cycle of the crisis. This article considers the ethical issues that arise when health providers are confronted with the challenges of caring for victims of disaster.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Desastres
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Medicina de Desastres
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Prioridades en Salud
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Crit Care Clin
Asunto de la revista:
TERAPIA INTENSIVA
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos