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development and years of experience are most likely to positively influence professional ethical standards in nursing care including ethical decision making for postoperative pain management . Studies also ...
of ‘terminal sedation’ for patients at the end of their lives, where they are suffering unbearable pain or distress that cannot be treated (pp. 48–50). Smith analyses legal and ethical principles to explain how ...
at the site of injury, transport, emergency department resuscitation, intraoperative management , postoperative and critical care, and pain management . Anesthesiologists may find themselves addressing issues ...
to the pain of those for whom there is no other hope to terminate their suffering. Thus, killings for reasons of eugenics, such as the improvement of the race or the human species, cannot be regarded as mercy ...
, if the drug administered has no pain alleviating effects, then on the authority of Cox, the doctor will not be able to rely on the double effect doctrine and this will indicate an intention to cause death ...
that inexpensive, effective and easily administered interventions are available. WHO has a ‘three-step analgesic ladder’ framework for managing cancer pain . This widely adopted clinical practice guideline ...
in the third week. It is important to note that the focus of IIPT programs such as the one discussed within this manuscript remains on decreasing the impact of pain by improving stress and pain management ...
, and carries with it inescapably a distinction between, on the one hand what is often called ‘ mercy killing’, where active steps are taken in a medical context to terminate the life of a suffering patient ...
by reference to the High Court of Australia decision in Rogers v Whitaker2—it managed to clarify (and partly overrule) possibly the most confusing and unsatisfactory House of Lords decision in recent history ...
pain experience. Any strategy will have limitations, as did ours. Although ethically challenging to conduct, a study that compares a substantially superior pain control approach with a standard one would ...
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