Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Ethics and critical care in the new millennium. | Available online http content 6 1 001 Editorial Ethics and critical care in the new millennium Laura Hawryluck and David Crippen Assistant Professor Critical Care Medicine University Health Network Member Joint Centre for Bioethics University of Toronto Ontario Canada Associate Director Departments of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Saint Francis Medical Center Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA Correspondence Laura Hawryluck Published online 11 January 2002 Critical Care 2002 6 1-2 2002 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Abstract Attempts to improve survival demand that intensivists practice at the forefront of technology. In the present millennium ethical challenges will arise during the development and use of emerging therapeutics and when helping patients and families to decide how these tools should be used in the context of individual and societal goals values and beliefs. The future of critical care depends on our abilities to think critically through the ethical challenges posed by the exciting therapeutics that draw us to the field. In the coming months Critical Care Forum will explore the ethical issues that so profoundly affect our ability to provide meaningful health care. Keywords bioethics critical care education research ethics As the critical care community enters the new millennium it will continue to encounter ethical challenges with regard to allocation application and use of newly emerging therapeutics. Critical Care Forum accepts this challenge and in the coming months will feature regular articles on ethical issues specific to the field. The evidence found in medical literature suggests that during the past 30 years we have learned a great deal about critical illness and how to keep patients alive. Unfortunately buoyed by these successes we have lagged behind in helping patients and their families to decide how our therapeutic tools should be used in the context of individual and
