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A book for nurses, doctors and all who provide end of life care, this essential volume guides readers through the ethical complexities of such care, including current policy initiatives, and encourages debate and discussion on their controversial aspects. dived into two parts, it introduces and explains clinical decision making-processes about which there is broad consensus, in line with guidance documents issued by WHO, BMA, GMC, and similar bodies. The changing political and social context where'patient choice'has become a central idea, and the broadened scope of potients'best interests, have added to the complexity of decision-making in end of life care. The authors discuss issues widely encountered by GPs, nurses, and hospital clinicians. These include patient choice, consent, life-prolonging treatment, and symptom relief including sedation. Part rwo explores the more controversial current end of life care initiatives, such as advance care planning preferred place of care and death, euthanais and assited suicide, extended ideas of'best interests', and the view that there are therapeutic duties to the relatives of Throughout their discussion the authors draw attention to loose e

Author

Fiona Randall; Robin Downie

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191730405

Subjects

Medical, Social Science, Medicine