Local Anesthetics: Clinical Pharmacology and Rational Selection Jeff Gadsden Local anesthetics (LAs) prevent or relieve pain by interrupting nerve conduction. They bind to specific receptor sites on the sodium (Na+)…
. Protecting vulnerable persons in research Necessary protections have two components: fair subject selection, and the specific care required to minimize wrongs to vulnerable persons once they are enrolled in…
701 et seq. 6 42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq 7 29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq 8* Percival, T. (1803). Medical Ethics; Or, a Code of Institutes and Precepts, Adapted to…
principle of beneficence may weigh more heavily than respecting individual autonomy. Adults with appropriate decision-making capacity express their autonomy through the informed consent process. Physicians demonstrate respect for the autonomy…
Table 47.2. Factors influencing discrete categorization of the wounded help protect (or at least not breach) the internal morality of military physicians, whose behavior by virtue of formal and informal…
Table 49.2. Fractionalization of responsibility during executions to diffuse responsibility (Note: not all institutions have identical execution processes, so these examples may not be universal) the execution procedure; monitoring vital…
* summarized from the Committee on Publication Ethics http://www.publicationethics.org/files/u2/New_Code.pdf. and that any potential personal conflicts of interest are avoided or at least made transparent. COPE has outlined a code of…
