Ethics in Intensive Care Medicine

Foreword.- Preface.- Part I. Principles of clinical ethics in intensive care medicine.- Clinical ethics and ethical principles.- The two pillars of intensive care medicine (I): Indication.- The two pillars of intensive care medicine (II): The Patient's Wishes and Consent.- Part II. Decision-making.- Inter-professional shared decision-making.- Shared decision-making with patients and families.- Cultural diversity.- Part III.- Goal of therapy and extent of treatment.- Life-sustaining therapies: indication, prognostication, and the patient's wishes.- Limiting life-sustaining therapies.- Focus topic: resuscitation in the ICU.- Palliative care in the intensive care unit.- Part IV - Appropriateness of care Ethical climate and proportionate care.- Clinical ethics and the law.- Distributive Justice: Ethics during health care crises.- Part V - Ethics in the ICU: The way ahead.- Making choices in uncertainty. Educating clinicians in clinical ethics.

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• Cuidados médicos intensivos
• Ética médica e conduta profissional
• Medicina cardiovascular
• Pesquisa em enfermagem e teoria
• Medicina respiratória
• Neurologia e neurofisiologia clínica

clinical ethics;prognostication / prognostic uncertainty;(informed) consent;cultural diversity / cultural relativism;inter-professional shared decision-making;limitation of life-sustaining therapies;palliative care;ethical climate;triage / prioritization