Abstract
Dr. Crippen has assembled this volume to explore how critical care medicine (CCM) professionals approach the care of patients when they or their proxies request marginal or no-benefit care consuming increasingly limited resources in the global critical care village. Most chapters in this volume attest to how CCM professionals operationalize the dilemma of supply versus demand imbalance in their national systems and cultures under variable numbers of ICU beds, technology infrastructure, professional manpower, and historical and cultural precedents in the context of worldwide bioethical pleuralism [1].
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | ICU Resource Allocation in the New Millennium |
Subtitle of host publication | Will We Say "No"? |
Publisher | Springer New York |
Pages | 251-260 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781461438663 |
ISBN (Print) | 1461438659, 9781461438656 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 1 2012 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Medicine