Ethics Preface Ethics Ethics Table of contents: Preface Introduction Types of ethics, ethical reasoning and ethical principles What is ethics? Why care about moral theory? Ethical principles Clinical ethical dilemmas Communication Ethics support Law and human rights Consent and decisions by proxies Consent Physician patient relationship and communication Competency / decisional capacity Volunteerism Tools for capacity assessment Decision making when the patient lacks capacity Patients without relatives or friends Children and adolescents Cultural diversity and cultural relativism Limiting live sustaining therapies, end of life care, palliative care Euthanasia and “active shortening of the dying process” Medical errors Shared decision making Interprofessional shared decision making Shared decision making between team and patient/family The public health interest in intensive care ethics The appropriateness and advisability of intensive care treatment Institutional admission and discharge policies Triage Clinical research Summary Ethics Preface Ethics