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G A Kanoti

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PubMed1987

Informed consent, bioethics, and patient value histories.

Technologic advances, such as organ donation and the ability to sustain life when no hope for recovery exists, mandate a need to document each patient's value system during routine visits while the patient in fully competent. Clinicians who maintain patient value histories are better prepared to help families make crucial decisions during times when life-sustaining technologies are required. At a workshop sponsored by the Association of Physician Assistant Programs (APAP) in Cincinnati, ten health care professionals reviewed a program developed by the authors to help clinicians conduct ethical investigations into a patient's value system as part of routine history-taking, thus expanding the concept of informed consent.

Attitude to Death↗
PubMed1986

Ethics in critical care medicine: conclusions.

This article describes the history of critical care medicine's cooperation with ethics, relates some lessons learned from this cooperation, identifies implications for other chronic and acute settings, and gives some suggestions for governmental and social input into the solution of the difficult ethical questions faced by contemporary medicine.

Critical Care↗
PubMed1986

Ethics and medical-ethical decisions.

This article reviews basic ethical language and presents an ethical decision-making model that is designed to assist ethical decisions in critical care medicine.

Critical Care↗