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Guidelines for Elective Pediatric Fiberoptic Intubation
Published on: January 18, 2011
[Ethics in daily practice of anesthesiology]
1Maître de conférences en anesthésiologie-réanimation chirurgicale, Faculté de médecine de Necker, l'Institut Pasteur.
Abstract:
Bioethics always has been a great part of medicine, particularly actually in anaesthesiology. From either neonatal distress resuscitation of polymalformated babies or negative vital prognostic babies enduring numerous anaesthesia, to euthanasia for condemned and often suffering patients, there are numerous medical situations in anaesthesiology needing ethical thinking. The circumstances are, in plus, very particular: emergency tense situations, triage during disaster medicine, fundamental decisions concerning personality of unconscious patients. Material needings in such medicine practice, costly monitoring and curative have to be underlined. Then, what a singular relation! The patient confinding the anaesthetist all his vital functions without knowing him.
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