Naujausi A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z
Autoriai: THOMAS A. RAFFIN, M.D. JOEL N. SHURKIN WHARTON SINKLER III, M.D.
Metai:
ISBN: 0-7167-1979-7
Brūkšninis kodas: 4202165
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Anotacija:
An explanation of the functions and failures of all major organ systems in the body and what one can expect to happen when various systems fail a discussion of death, acknowledging that there is a point in everybody's life when
dying becomes a more natural process than living an understanding of the moral, ethical, legal, and economic problems that arise when medical science succeeds in keeping a person's body alive, but fails to restore that person to a reasonable quality of life But most important of all, the authors deal with these disturbing and controversial issues in an informative, candid, and very humane way. They offer the comfort and guidance we need when faced with life�s most critical choices.
Introduction vii
CHAPTER ONE
Intensive care 1
CHAPTER TWO
The heart 19
CHAPTER THREE
The lungs 37
CHAPTER FOUR
The kidneys and the liver 55
CHAPTER FIVE
The brain and the central nervous system 71
CHAPTER SIX
Saving lives: A program for recovery 89
CHAPTER SEVEN
Vital death 105
CHAPTER EIGHT
Ethics of life and death 123
CHAPTER NINE
Law and death 145
CHAPTER TEN
The economics of Intensive Care 173
CHAPTER ELEVEN
When it happens to you 191
INDEX 205
