An Ethical Assessment of Intensive Care

1 January 1992

journal article
review article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

Vol. 8 (3) , 408-418
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300013714

Abstract

Any evaluation of intensive care must include an ethical assessment of that technology. This allows us to consider the use of technologyin light of the ends that we desire. The most pressing ethical issues in intensive care are: forgoing life-sustaining treatment, dehumanization of patients and staff within the technological environment, and the allocation of the technology that is integral to intensive care.

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