TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Ethics of Acute Care Surgery A1 - McCullough, Laurence B. A2 - Moore, Ernest E. A2 - Feliciano, David V. A2 - Mattox, Kenneth L. PY - 2017 T2 - Trauma, 8e AB - Trauma care is undertaken in order to save the lives and protect the health of patients who have experienced injuries. The health of patients includes such ethically significant outcomes include survival as well as morbidity, functional status, quality of life, pain, distress, and suffering. Survival as well as these health-related outcomes must be taken into account in an adequate ethics of acute care surgery in the context of trauma. The ethical obligation to provide trauma care, however, is therefore not unlimited. Sometimes it becomes ethically justified to set limits on the medical or surgical management of trauma, especially on the basis of clinical judgments of futility. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141190947 ER -