Medical, moral, legal, and ethical aspects of resuscitation for the patient who will have minimal ability to function or ultimately survive
✍ Scribed by American College of Emergency Physicians
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1013 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6760
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✦ Synopsis
The Bioethics Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians has developed this discussion paper on the medical, moral, legal, and ethical aspects of resuscitation. The ACEP Board, at its April 1985 meeting, agreed with the Committee's recommendation that the paper be published in its entirety to solicit member comment. The Committee believes that you, as emergency physicians, are faced daily with bioethical decisions and dilemmas, and that the College has the responsibility to provide the information you may require to make an appropriate, educated decision and to commit itself to positions on bioethical issues. To that end, the Bioethics Committee requests your comments regarding the issues raised in this paper. Through your responses, the Committee hopes to identify the issues that are most important to ACEP members and to address these issues through development of College positions. Please direct your comments to the Bioethics Committee,