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Valerie Bridget Satkoske1, David A Kappel2, Michael A DeVita3
1Wheeling Hospital, 64 Medical Center Drive, Room 1168D, Health Sciences North, Morgantown, WV 26506-9022, USA.
Abstract:
Emergency and critical care medicine are fraught with ethically challenging decision making for clinicians, patients, and families. Time and resource constraints, decisional-impaired patients, and emotionally overwhelmed family members make obtaining informed consent, discussing withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatments, and respecting patient values and preferences difficult. When illness or trauma is secondary to disaster, ethical considerations increase and change based on number of casualties, type of disaster, and anticipated life cycle of the crisis. This article considers the ethical issues that arise when health providers are confronted with the challenges of caring for victims of disaster.
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