Law and Ethics in Intensive Care
, by Danbury, Christopher; Newdick, Christopher; Ruck Keene, Alex; Waldmann, CarlNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780198817161 | 0198817169
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/16/2020
Christopher Danbury, Consultant Intensive Care Physician, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, United Kingdom,Christopher Newdick, Professor of Health Law, University of Reading, Reading, Unibted Kingdom,Carl Waldmann, Consultant, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, United Kingdom,Alexander Ruck Keene, Barrister, 39 Essex Chambers; Visiting Lecturer and Wellcome Research Fellow, King's College London
Dr Christopher Danbury is a Consultant Intensive Care Physician at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. With almost 30 years of experience as a Doctor, he graduated from St George's Hospital Medical School in 1990, before switching his focus to intensive care medicine. In 2002, Dr Danbury was appointed a consultant intensive care physician in one of the busiest District General Hospital Intensive Care Units in England. His research work focuses on bio-legal research, particularly decision making in the critical care unit. In 2005, Dr Danbury was appointed as Visiting Fellow in Health Law at the School of Law at the University of Reading, a post he still holds. He is an experienced expert witness, giving oral evidence regularly in the Court of Protection.
Chris Newdick is the Professor of Health Law at the University of Reading. He is an advisor to the Thames Valley Priorities Committee, has served on the Medicines Commission and was a member of the Independent Review of Individual Patient Funding Requests in Wales. He is the author of Who Should We Treat? - Rights, Rationing and Resources.
Carl Waldmann is Consultant in ICM and Anaesthesia at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading and Dean of the Faculty of Critical Care. Apart from his interests in the management of Head Injured patients in a DGH, the procurement and implementation of a Clinical Information System in ICU, his passion has been setting up and running an ICU follow-up clinic in Reading. From May 2007 to May 2009 he was President of the ICS, editor of Care of the Critically Ill and until 2004 the editor of JICS. Carl was also Chair of the section of Technology Assessment and Health Informatics [TAHI] of the ESICM until 2008. He was a member of the PACT editorial board of the ESICM and between 2015 and 2018 served as the Treasurer for the ESICM. Carl also has an interest in pre-hospital care and is club doctor for Leyton Orient FC.
Alex is a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers specialising in mental capacity and mental health law. He also writes extensively, has numerous academic affiliations, including as Visiting Lecturer and Wellcome Research Fellow at King's College London, and created the website www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk.
Section A: Listening to Patients
1. Consent for Intensive Care: Public and Political Expectations vs. Conceptual and Practical Hurdles, Dominic Bell
2. Refusing and Demanding Medical Treatment in Intensive Care, Alex Ruck Keene and Zo? Fritz
3. DNAR: to Resuscitate or not to Resuscitate? Rights, Wrongs, Ethics and the Voice of the Patient, Hazel Biggs
Section B: Listening to Doctors, Parents, and Relatives
4. Spanner in the Works or Cogs in a Wheel? Parents and Decision-making for Critically Ill Young Children, Th?r?se Callus
5. Adults who Lack Capacity to Consent and Deprivation of Liberty, Daniele Bryden
6. Promoting the Best Possible Death - Futility in Terminally Ill Patients Who Lack Capacity, Christopher Newdick and Christopher Danbury
7. Diagnosing Death, Dale Gardiner and Andrew McGee
Section C: External influences
8. Doing What's Best: Organ Donation and Intensive Care, John Coggon and Louise Austin
9. Conflicts of Interest, Carl Waldmann, Neil Soni, and Andrew Lawson
10. Social Media Pressures in Intensive Care, Rosaleen Baruah
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