Three Patients

International Perspective on Intensive Care at the End of Life

David F Kelly editor David W Crippen editor Jack K Kilcullen editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Published:7th Dec '12

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This volume explores how the scarce resources of intensive care units should be distributed. A multinational panel of experienced critical care physicians offers assessments of the patients' conditions and outlines approaches to treatment.This volume explores how the scarce resources of intensive care units should be distributed. Three hypothetical patients, each with a different chance of survival, desire intensive care. A multinational panel of experienced critical care physicians offers assessments of the patients' conditions and outlines approaches to treatment. These approaches are then examined by academic medical experts and a medical ethicist, as well as from a legal perspective. The result is a well-rounded and introspective look at care for critically ill patients at or near the end of life.

"this book provides a very interesting and stimulating dialogue on the increasingly complex end-of-life issues that are so relevant to the practice of intensive care medicine."
(Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, October (2002)

ISBN: 9781461353140

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278 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002