Book contents
- Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology
- Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Consent and refusal
- 2 End-of-life issues
- 15 The principle of double effect in palliative care: euthanasia by another name?
- 16 Surgical interventions near the end of life: “therapeutic trials”
- 17 Withholding and withdrawing life support in the intensive care unit
- 18 Discontinuing pacemakers, ventricular assist devices, and implanted cardioverter-defibrillators in end-of-life care
- 19 Brain death
- 20 Ethical issues in organ donation after cardiac death
- 21 Revising the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act – the role of physicians in shaping legislation
- 22 Physician aid-in-dying and euthanasia
- 3 Pain management
- 4 Research and publication
- 5 Practice issues
- 6 Anesthesiologists, the state, and society
- Index
21 - Revising the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act – the role of physicians in shaping legislation
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
Book contents
- Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology
- Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Consent and refusal
- 2 End-of-life issues
- 15 The principle of double effect in palliative care: euthanasia by another name?
- 16 Surgical interventions near the end of life: “therapeutic trials”
- 17 Withholding and withdrawing life support in the intensive care unit
- 18 Discontinuing pacemakers, ventricular assist devices, and implanted cardioverter-defibrillators in end-of-life care
- 19 Brain death
- 20 Ethical issues in organ donation after cardiac death
- 21 Revising the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act – the role of physicians in shaping legislation
- 22 Physician aid-in-dying and euthanasia
- 3 Pain management
- 4 Research and publication
- 5 Practice issues
- 6 Anesthesiologists, the state, and society
- Index
Summary
The original Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA) is model legislation for states to emulate, and promote uniform laws among states. A revised version of the UAGA 2006 has now been adopted in most of the US, but the story still serves to remind us that ethical responsibilities do not end at the hospital doors, but include a duty to help shape healthcare legislation. Respect for patient autonomy requires that patients be fully informed about implications that organ donation may have for other aspects of end-of-life (EOL) care. Anesthesiologists have ethical duties to understand legislation that may affect their patients, to publicize concerns, and to press for legislation that adequately protects the rights of all patients. Legislative change requires the actions of just a few knowledgeable persons. This chapter also presents the case study of a man in critical condition, who wishes to be an organ donor.
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- Clinical Ethics in AnesthesiologyA Case-Based Textbook, pp. 123 - 127Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010