ANESTHESIA
Research with vulnerable persons such as children and prisoners
. 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…
Ethical considerations regarding the disabled anesthesiologist
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…
Informed refusal – the Jehovah’s Witness patient
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…
Triage and treatment of wounded during armed conflict
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…
Physician participation in executions
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…
Publication ethics: obligations of authors, peer-reviewers, and editors
* 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…
Opioid therapy in addicted patients: background and perspective from the US
background and perspective from the US Jane C. Ballantyne and Joseph Klein The three cases Please refer to the previous chapter’s cases for discussion. Opium addiction as a social problem…
