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Katrina: an introductionDavid Crippen
Crit Care 10:104. 2006
Ethics roundtable debate: is a physician-patient confidentiality relationship subservient to a greater good?Chris Cotton
South Australian Ambulance Service, Adelaide, Australia
Crit Care 9:233-7. 2005....
Pro/con clinical debate: life support should have a special status among therapies, and patients or their families should have a right to insist on this treatment even if it will not improve outcomeDavid Crippen
Crit Care 8:231-3; discussion 231-3. 2004..Understanding both sides of this debate is an important aspect of an intensivist's job...
Disaster medicine: the caring contradictionDavid Crippen
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, 644s Saife Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Crit Care 14:133. 2010..We describe a recent scenario in Haiti that puts some of these complications into a practical perspective...
Ethics review: dark angels--the problem of death in intensive careDavid W Crippen
Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15621, USA
Crit Care 11:202. 2007..This work examines the emerging paradox of somatic versus brain death and why it matters to medical science...
Ethics roundtable: 'Open-ended ICU care: can we afford it?'David Crippen
Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 644a Saife Hall, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Crit Care 14:222. 2010....
Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the 'risk of unacceptable badness'David Crippen
Neurovascular ICU, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Crit Care 9:317-8. 2005..End of life treatment decisions that only prolong discomfort and death are usually emotional and based on unrealistic expectations. I explore some of those reasons in this paper...
Pro/con ethics debate: when is dead really dead?Leslie Whetstine
Health Care Ethics Center, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15282, USA
Crit Care 9:538-42. 2005..We consider the problem of defining death in the ICU as a function of viable organ availability for transplantation...
Brain death and withdrawal of supportMaxim D Hammer
The Stroke Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 200 Lothrop Street, PUH C 419, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Surg Clin North Am 86:1541-51. 2006..Confirmatory testing, which mostly evaluates higher clinical function, is usually not required for the diagnosis of brain death...
Internet information processing: what price privacyDavid Crippen
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Critical Care Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
J Crit Care 22:32-3. 2007
Noninvasive ventilation and palliative care: Unfolding the promiseDavid W Crippen
Crit Care Med 32:881-2. 2004
