1. Delving Deeper Into Informed Consent: Legal and Ethical Dilemmas of Emergency Consent, Surrogate Consent, and Intraoperative Consultation
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Victor Macrinici, Seema Ghelani, Tha A Saw, Alfonso Mejia, Estella Y Huang, Narmeen I Khan, and Abhiraj D. Bhimani
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Modern medicine ,Intraoperative consultation ,MEDLINE ,Context (language use) ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,Informed consent ,Humans ,Medicine ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Bioethical Issues ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Intraoperative Complications ,Referral and Consultation ,Third-Party Consent ,health care economics and organizations ,Oath ,Do no harm ,business.industry ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,Bioethics ,humanities ,Surgery ,Emergencies ,business - Abstract
Informed consent is gaining an ever-important place in modern medicine. The practice of patient-centered medicine along with evidence-based medicine requires a balance between the patient's wishes and the physician's oath to do no harm. Surrogate consent, emergency consent, and intraoperative consultation are 3 situations prone to legal and ethical dilemmas in the fulfillment of informed consent. By examining the proposed models and legal precedents that address the challenges in informed consent, discussion of these dilemmas in the context of both law and bioethics may provide a better understanding of how to resolve them. [ Orthopedics . 2018; 41(6):e741–e746.]
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- 2018