Ethical issues in the pediatric intensive care unit

Ethical issues in the pediatric intensive care unit

Frader JE; Thompson A

Pediatric Clinics Of North America

1994

Child; Humans; United States; Parental Consent; Pediatrics; Withholding Treatment; Social Values; Intensive Care; Minors; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Ethics; Uncertainty; Medical; adolescent; Preschool; Professional Patient Relationship; infant; ICU Decision Making; Critical Illness/psychology; Judicial Role; Value of Life

Advanced technology and better scientific understanding of mechanisms of disease now permit intensive care personnel to extend life beyond what some patients and families consider reasonable, leading, in part, to the "patients' rights" movement and the articulation of legal and moral guidelines for foregoing life support. In the case of pediatrics, commentaries on a few of the topics that have arisen most frequently or have provided the greatest challenge in the authors' experience are provided.

1994

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