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
- 3 Pain management
- 4 Research and publication
- 5 Practice issues
- 6 Anesthesiologists, the state, and society
- 43 Physician conscientious objection in anesthesiology practice
- 44 The ethics of expert testimony
- 45 Ethical principles regarding physician response to disasters: pandemics, natural disasters, and terrorism
- 46 Triage in civilian mass casualty situations
- 47 Triage and treatment of wounded during armed conflict
- 4 8 Physician facilitation of torture and coercive interrogation
- 49 Physician participation in executions
- Index
47 - Triage and treatment of wounded during armed conflict
from 6 - Anesthesiologists, the state, and society
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
- 3 Pain management
- 4 Research and publication
- 5 Practice issues
- 6 Anesthesiologists, the state, and society
- 43 Physician conscientious objection in anesthesiology practice
- 44 The ethics of expert testimony
- 45 Ethical principles regarding physician response to disasters: pandemics, natural disasters, and terrorism
- 46 Triage in civilian mass casualty situations
- 47 Triage and treatment of wounded during armed conflict
- 4 8 Physician facilitation of torture and coercive interrogation
- 49 Physician participation in executions
- Index
Summary
Triage is a system of sorting patients according to need when resources are insufficient for all wounded to be treated. Military medical ethics becomes even more complex and challenging in the arena of armed conflict when triage of the wounded involves friendly soldiers, enlisted enemy soldiers, and local civilians. There is a theoretical and practical basis for treating wounded enemy non-combatants the same as wounded friendly soldiers. Civilian non-combatants are those taking no active part in hostilities such as the local civilians, aid workers, displaced persons, and media. Knowledge of some of the ethical underpinnings of the decision-making process would aid in making these difficult decisions in a tense situation. Close examination of the nature of the differences between bioethical principles in peacetime as well as wartime will ultimately lead to a better understanding of the difficulties faced by physicians during armed conflict.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Clinical Ethics in AnesthesiologyA Case-Based Textbook, pp. 275 - 279Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010