BACKGROUND: Flame injury confers significant physical and psychologic stress on burn
patients. Because most patients and their surrogates lack an understanding of burn injury …

Modern burn care often leads to the dilemma of what should or should not be done for
patients with clinical deterioration and organ system failure who fail to respond to therapy …

Ethical considerations in the decision to resuscitate and continue treatment of a massive
burn injury are complex. As survival improves, the parameters we use in deciding to …

Rehabilitation is a qualitatively and quantitatively different experience for patients and staff
than acute or long-term care. Acute care focuses on effecting a cure and returning a person …

In the case we present, a physician's order for the treatment of a patient with severe burns
unfolds into an ethical dilemma for an occupational therapist. Several conflicting thoughts …

Catastrophic burn injuries often leave patients in shock or incommunicative, creating
complex ethical situations. Patient autonomy and the ability to make competent decisions …

Sustaining a burn injury often results in a life-long recovery process. Survivors are impacted
by changes in their mobility, appearance, and ability to carry out activities of daily living. In …

``A patient may decide to limit treatment because of the anticipated quality of his own life, but
it would be inappropriate for the physician or family to do so. Judgements about the quality …

As the number of patients with chronic illness or disability grows, rehabilitation professionals
will face increasingly difficult questions. Traditional concepts of medical ethics can help find …

When the subject of ethics is raised perhaps professionals overlook the fact that medicine is
a moral endeavour. It is understandable human nature that the familiar is often forgotten …