The Lazarus case : life-and-death issues in neonatal intensive care / John D. Lantos.
Material type: TextSeries: Medicine & culture | Medicine & culturePublication details: Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001.Description: 224p. ; 23cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780801867620 :
- 0801867622 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Neonatal intensive care -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Physicians -- Malpractice -- United States
- Neonatal intensive care -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Medical ethics -- United States
- Malpractice
- Intensive Care, Neonatal -- legislation & jurisprudence
- Decision Making
- Ethics, Medical
- Infant
- Intensive Care, Neonatal -- standards
- Resuscitation Orders -- legislation & jurisprudence
- Communication
- Disabled Children
- Iatrogenic Disease
- Infant, Premature
- Infant, Very Low Birth Weight
- Life Support Care
- Malpractice
- Medical Futility
- Patient Care Team
- Professional-Family Relations
- Prognosis
- Quality of Life
- Resuscitation
- Treatment Outcome
- Withholding Treatment
- United States
- 174.20973 21
- RJ253.5 .L36 2001
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2 Week Loan | Cork University Hospital Healthcare Library | Cork University Hospital Healthcare Library | Open Shelves | W 174.2 LANT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0008869770 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Somebody will pay -- Passing out in the NICU -- Learning about death and dying -- Standards of care -- Prognostication and futility -- Consent, communication, shared decision making -- Getting paid -- Home births -- Mistakes in context -- Closing argument.
In this volume, John Lantos weaves a story that captures the dilemmas of modern medical practice. He draws on his experience in neonatal medicine, paediatrics and medical ethics to explore ethical dilemmas through one poignant representative situation.
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