Ethics seminars: The ethical debate on practicing procedures on the newly dead

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 962-966

  Schmidt, Terri A ^a,b   Abbott, Jean T ^a   Geiderman, Joel M ^a   Hughes, Jason A ^a   Johnson, Catherine X ^a   McClure, Katie B ^a   McKay, Mary P ^a   Razzak, Junaid A ^a   Salo, David ^a   Schears, Raquel M ^a   Solomon, Robert C ^a  

^a Society for Academic Emergency Medicine   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

consent; dead; ethics; newly dead; position; procedures; Society for Academic Emergency Medicine; teaching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEATH; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FAMILY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SKILL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

DEATH; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FAMILY; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4344597649     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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