Research Catalog

Title

Three patients : international perspective on intensive care at the end of life / edited by David Crippen, Jack K. Kilcullen, David F. Kelly.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Crippen, David, 1943-
• Kilcullen, Jack K.
• Kelly, David F.

Description

xvii, 275 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Critical Care > utilization
• Right to Die
• Ethics, Clinical
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Euthanasia, Passive
• Euthanasia > Cross-cultural studies
• Right to die > Cross-cultural studies
• Critical care medicine > Cross-cultural studies
• Medical ethics > Cross-cultural studies
• Critical Care > utilization
• Resuscitation Orders
• Patient Dropouts

Genre/Form

• Case Reports
• Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Peter Safar -- Overview / Jack K. Kilcullen -- Medical Futility in American Health Care / David F. Kelly -- Multinational Perspective on Treatment of the Three Patients -- Description of the Cases / David Crippen -- South Africa / Richard Burrows -- Australia / Malcolm Fisher -- United Kingdom / Anna Batchelor -- India / Farhad Kapadia -- New Zealand / Stephen Streat -- The Netherlands / Hans van der Spoel -- Russia / Michael Karakozov -- Hong Kong / Ian K. S. Tan -- Israel / Aviel Roy-Shapira -- Canada / Ted S. Rogovein -- Urban United States / Don Chalfin -- Summaries of Medical Comments -- Patient A -- Is Treatment Worthwhile? / Bruce Gipe -- Globalization of Critical Care / John W. Hoyt -- A Multilevel Examination of a Critically Ill Patient / Jack K. Kilcullen -- Patient B -- The Decision-Making Process / Rolando Berger -- Should Patient B Receive Critical Care? / Jean-Louis Vincent -- The Yin and Yang of Critical Care: Utilitarianism Meets the Law of Supply and Demand / Ivor S. Douglas -- Patient C -- Treatment of a "Classic" Intensive Care Unit Patient / Mitchell Levy -- Should This Patient Be Admitted to a Critical Care Unit? / David Crippen -- Multiple Organ Failure and Intensive Care / Richard Burrows -- General Multidisciplinary Survey -- Discussion of the Medical Aspects of Futility / David Crippen -- Discussion of the Ethical Aspects of Futility / David F. Kelly -- Waiting for the Cavalry: The Role of the Courts in Recognizing Medical Futility / Jack K. Kilcullen -- Comments From Paramedical Providers -- End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit / Gabriele Ford -- Advanced Medical Technology and End of Life: A Respiratory Care Practitioner's Perspective / David H. Walker -- Medical Futility / Leslie Beckhart Jenal -- Afterword / David Crippen.

ISBN

0792376714 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002016051

OCLC

48811603

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library