Journal article
Responding to Sudden Cardiac Failure: Ethical and Legal Issues for Rehabilitation Counselors
Journal of applied rehabilitation counseling, Vol.33(3), pp.3-9
09/01/2002
DOI: 10.1891/0047-2220.33.3.3
Abstract
Although the prevalence of cardiac arrest in nonmedical rehabilitation settings is low, consumers of rehabilitation services may use advance medical directives to indicate their choice to be resuscitated or not resuscitated in case of cardiac failure. It is important that rehabilitation professionals educate themselves regarding their ethical and legal obligations to provide life support to consumers of rehabilitation services. The purpose of this paper is to identify ethical responsibilities of rehabilitation professionals in light of the various legal directives that consumers, their surrogates, and physicians can employ to guide resuscitation efforts. The decision to initiate resuscitation should be based in knowledge of the mechanisms of advance directives and upon the ethical principles that guide professional practice, rather than upon myth; fear of death, or panic.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Responding to Sudden Cardiac Failure: Ethical and Legal Issues for Rehabilitation Counselors
- Creators
- John S WadsworthQuincy SmilingPhillip Lewis
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of applied rehabilitation counseling, Vol.33(3), pp.3-9
- Publisher
- Springer Publishing Company
- DOI
- 10.1891/0047-2220.33.3.3
- ISSN
- 0047-2220
- eISSN
- 2639-7641
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2002
- Academic Unit
- Counselor Education
- Record Identifier
- 9984374339602771
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