Critical Care: Standards, Audit and Ethics

by Jack Tinker (Editor), Doreen R.G. Browne

Critical Standards, Audit and Ethics brings together the important issues which are topical and relevant to the dilemmas faced by all concerned with the management of critically ill patients. The standards of resources that should be available to delver this care are discussed,
including transport of the critically ill, the design of intensive care units, technical support, and the staffing and training within related disciplines, viewed from a world wide perspective. The authors review and current theories and practice in audit to quantify critical illnesses; the
selection of patients; the results of critical care and the quality of survival as well as the cost benefits; the ethics of establishing health care priorities; withholding and withdrawing life-support; the ethcical issues of organ donation; clinical research, medico-legal, and moral religious
aspects of critical care.

412 pages, Hardcover

First published October 17, 1995