Ethical Problems in Emergency Medicine

This book is designed to consolidate the relevant literature as well as the thoughts of professionals currently working in the field into a practical and accessible reference for the emergency medical technician, student, nurse, resident, and attending emergency physician. Each chapter is divided into four sections: case presentation, discussion, review of the current literature, and recommendations. Designed to serve simultaneously as a learning and reference tool, each chapter begins with a real case that was encountered in an ED setting. The case presentation is followed by a short discussion of the case, as if at a morbidity and mortality conference, by a panel of experienced attending physicians explaining how they would approach the ethical dilemmas associated with the case, and a review of the existing literature.

John Jesus, MD, Chief Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Clinical Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE, USA.

Peter Rosen, MD, FACS, FACEP, Director of Education, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Shamai A. Grossman, MD, MS, FACEP, Vice Chair for Resource Utilization; Director, Cardiac Emergency Center, Division of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD, FACEP, Director, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Medical Humanities; Professor of Bioethics and Emergency Medicine, Institute for Health and Society, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

James G. Adams, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA.

Richard Wolfe, MD, Chief of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.