Format:
1 Online-Ressource(X, 279 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2020.
ISBN:
9783030356606
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Content:
Preface -- Introduction to Biomedical Ethics -- Autonomy and the Principles of Medical Practice -- Informed Consent -- Conflict of Interest -- Ethics of Surgical Innovation for Congenital Heart Diseases -- Ethical Considerations in Patients with Extracardiac or Genetic Anomalies -- Medical Futility:When Further Therapy is Hopeless -- Ethical Issues Surrounding the use of Post Cardiotomy ECMO -- Rare Diagnoses and Allocation of Precious Resources -- Abortion Rights -- Fetal Cardiac Interventions -- Ethical Considerations in the Transcatheter Management of Congenital Heart Disease -- Informed Consent in Fetal Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome -- Role of Ethics Consultation in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease -- Ethics, Justice, and the Province of American Medicine: A Discussion of the Politicalization of the Duty to Care for Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients who are in the Country Illegally -- The unintended consequences of public reporting -- Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Heart Transplantation -- Between Death and Donation: Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Heart Transplantation -- Active and Passive Euthanasia (killing and letting die) in the Context of Severe Congenital Heart Disease -- Ethical and Legal Controversies Concerning Consolidation of Congenital Heart Programs in The United States of America.
Content:
This title reviews the bioethical issues in congenital heart disease and other difficult pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgical situations. It provides considered opinions and recommendations as to the preferred actions to take in these cases, stressing the importance of making informed decisions that are bioethically sound and doing so using considered reasoning of all the related sensitive issues. Bioethical Controversies in Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery provides detailed recommendations on potential solutions to make bioethical decisions in difficult clinical scenarios. There is particular emphasis on controversies involving surgery for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, futility, informed consent, autonomy, genomics, and beneficence. It is intended for use by a wide range of practitioners, including congenital heart surgeons, pediatric cardiologists, pediatric intensivists, nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants, and clinical ethicists. .
Additional Edition:
9783030356590
Additional Edition:
9783030356613
Additional Edition:
9783030356620
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9783030356590
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9783030356613
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9783030356620
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bioethical controversies in pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery$Constantine Mavroudis, J. Thomas Cook, Constantine D. Mavroudis, editors Cham : Springer, 2020 9783030356590
Language:
English
Subjects:
Medicine
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-35660-6
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