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- Title
IS IT PERMISSIBLE TO FORGO EMERGENT RESTORATIVE SURGERY IN THIS CASE?
- Authors
Sullivan, Dennis M.; Salladay, Susan A.
- Abstract
The article presents a case study on a 84 year-old woman hospitalized for elective hip surgery that led to a request for an ethics consultation. The surgery is posponed because she is diagnosed with coronary heart disease but she gave pre-procedure consent for treatment complications. The article aims to address ethical dilemmas encountered by patients, families and medical personnel. Moreover, it provides careful analysis and recommendations in accordance with biblical standards.
- Subjects
MEDICAL ethics; HIP surgery; ELECTIVE surgery; PRESUMED consent (Medical law); CASE studies; PATIENT-professional relations; DISEASES in older women; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics, 2009, Vol 25, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
0266-688X
- Publication type
Article