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Ethics in Critical Care

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Ethical issues are common in critical care. The high degree of urgency present in managing extremely ill patients, the often sudden onset of their illness, the frequent lack of decisionmaking capacity of patients who are critically ill, and, for many critically ill patients, the status of being near death all contribute to ethical questions about appropriateness of therapy.

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  1. John M. Travaline
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  2. Friedrich Kueppers
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  1. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, 19140, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Gerard J. Criner MD (Professor of Medicine) & Gilbert E. D’Alonzo DO (Professor of Medicine) (Professor of Medicine) &  (Professor of Medicine)

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Travaline, J.M., Kueppers, F. (2002). Ethics in Critical Care. In: Criner, G.J., D’Alonzo, G.E. (eds) Critical Care Study Guide. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3927-5_31

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