Three Patients

International Perspective on Intensive Care at the End of Life

By: David W. Crippen (Editor), Jack K. Kilcullen (Editor), David F. Kelly (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 March 2002

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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.

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"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)

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Published: 7th December 2012

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Contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction
Overview	p. 3
Medical Futility in American Health Care	p. 7
Multinational Perspective on Treatment of the Three Patients
Description of the Cases	p. 27
South Africa	p. 33
Australia	p. 39
United Kingdom	p. 43
India	p. 49
New Zealand	p. 55
The Netherlands	p. 61
Russia	p. 67
Hong Kong	p. 73
Israel	p. 77
Canada	p. 83
Urban United States	p. 89
Summaries of Medical Comments

Is Treatment Worthwhile?	p. 99
Globalization of Critical Care	p. 111
A Multilevel Examination of a Critically Ill Patient	p. 117

The Decision-Making Process	p. 133
Should Patient B Receive Critical Care?	p. 139
The Yin and Yang of Critical Care: Utilitarianism Meets the Law of Supply and Demand	p. 145

Treatment of a "Classic" Intensive Care Unit Patient	p. 153
Should This Patient Be Admitted to a Critical Care Unit?	p. 163
Multiple Organ Failure and Intensive Care	p. 177
General Multidisciplinary Survey
Discussion of the Medical Aspects of Futility	p. 189
Discussion of the Ethical Aspects of Futility	p. 205
Waiting for the Cavalry: The Role of the Courts in Recognizing Medical Futility	p. 221
Comments From Paramedical Providers
End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit	p. 247
Advanced Medical Technology and End of Life: A Respiratory Care Practitioner's Perspective	p. 253
Medical Futility	p. 257
Afterword	p. 265
Index	p. 271
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