Title Intensive care : facing the critical choices / Thomas A. Raffin, Joel N. Shurkin, Wharton Sinkler III

Published New York : Freeman, [1989] ©1989

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Description viii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents 1. Intensive care -- 2. The heart -- 3. The Lungs -- 4. The kidneys and the liver -- 5. The brain and the central nervous system -- 6. Saving lives: a program for recovery -- 7. Vital death -- 8. Ethics of life and death -- 9. Law and death -- 10. The economics of intensive care -- 11. When it happens to you Notes Includes index Subject Critical care medicine -- Economic aspects. Critical care medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects. Critical care medicine. Intensive care units. Life support systems (Critical care) Medical ethics. Attitude to Death. Ethics, Medical. Intensive Care Units. Life Support Care. Author Shurkin, Joel N., 1938- Sinkler, Wharton. LC no. 88010994 ISBN 0716719703 0716719797 (paperback)

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