Ethics in the Labor and Delivery Unit

Autor: David G. Mann, Caitlin D. Sutton
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Anesthesiology Clinics. 39:839-849
ISSN: 1932-2275
Popis: Obstetric anesthesiologists can use the tenets of principlism to identify ethically supportable decisions. This approach begins with recognizing and upholding the fiduciary obligations that every physician has to their patient. For the pregnant patient, these obligations are both autonomy- and beneficence-based. Additional beneficence-based obligations arise in cases where the fetus is also considered a patient. Ethical dilemmas result from conflict between any of these obligations. A shared decision-making model that incorporates the foundational principles of ethics can be used to resolve these conflicts, leaving clinicians and patients confident that a sound decision-making process has taken place and an ethically supportable decision has been reached.
Databáze: OpenAIRE