BookBarbara G. Jericho, editor.
Contents:
1. Informed Consent: Pediatric Patients, Adolescents, and Emancipated Minors
2. Preoperative Testing: Ethical Challenges, Evidence-Based Medicine and Informed Consent
3. Informed Consent and the Disclosure of Surgeon Experience
4. Perioperative Considerations of Do Not Resuscitate and Do Not Intubate Orders in Adult Patients
5. Pediatric Patients: Do Not Resuscitate Decisions
6. Ethical Care of the Children of Jehovah?s Witnesses
7. Fatigue and the Care of Patients
8. Conscientious Objection
9. Ethical Implications of Drug Shortages
10. Ethical Challenges in High-Risk Innovative Surgery
11. Professionalism in the Operating Room
12. Honesty in the Perioperative Setting: Error and Communication
13. Futility and the Care of the Perioperative Patient
14. End-of-Life Issues: Management of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices
15. End-of-Life Issues: Spirituality
16. Ethics in Research and Publication
17. Ethics and Evidence Regarding Animal Subjects Research: Splitting Hares- or Swallowing Camels?.