Book contents
- Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees
- Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1 The Context of Healthcare Ethics Committee Work
- Section 2 Consultation
- Chapter 7 Ethics Consultation Mission, Vision, Goals, and Process
- Chapter 8 A Method of Consultation
- Chapter 9 Informed Consent
- Chapter 10 Confidentiality and Privacy
- Chapter 11 Decision-Making Capacity
- Chapter 12 Discharge Challenges
- Chapter 13 Surrogate Decision Making
- Chapter 14 Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Decision-Making
- Chapter 15 Potentially Inappropriate Treatment and Medical Futility
- Chapter 16 Cognitive Dissonance and the Care of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness
- Chapter 17 Ethical Issues in Reproduction
- Chapter 18 Ethical Issues in Neonatology
- Chapter 19 Ethical Issues in Pediatrics
- Chapter 20 Neuroethics
- Chapter 21 Ethical Issues in Clinical Genetics
- Chapter 22 Challenging Issues in Surgical Ethics
- Chapter 23 Psychiatric Ethics
- Section 3 Policy Development and Organizational Issues
- Index
- References
Chapter 16 - Cognitive Dissonance and the Care of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness
from Section 2 - Consultation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2022
- Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees
- Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1 The Context of Healthcare Ethics Committee Work
- Section 2 Consultation
- Chapter 7 Ethics Consultation Mission, Vision, Goals, and Process
- Chapter 8 A Method of Consultation
- Chapter 9 Informed Consent
- Chapter 10 Confidentiality and Privacy
- Chapter 11 Decision-Making Capacity
- Chapter 12 Discharge Challenges
- Chapter 13 Surrogate Decision Making
- Chapter 14 Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Decision-Making
- Chapter 15 Potentially Inappropriate Treatment and Medical Futility
- Chapter 16 Cognitive Dissonance and the Care of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness
- Chapter 17 Ethical Issues in Reproduction
- Chapter 18 Ethical Issues in Neonatology
- Chapter 19 Ethical Issues in Pediatrics
- Chapter 20 Neuroethics
- Chapter 21 Ethical Issues in Clinical Genetics
- Chapter 22 Challenging Issues in Surgical Ethics
- Chapter 23 Psychiatric Ethics
- Section 3 Policy Development and Organizational Issues
- Index
- References
Summary
Although there is a substantial and growing scholarship on disorders of consciousness – conditions spanning coma, brain death, the vegetative state, and the minimally conscious state – when these cases occur in clinical practice, the degree of clinician ignorance can make it seem as if these scenarios were occurring for the very first time (Giacino et al., 2014). Care can be marked by improvisation and ignorance to the detriment of patients and families as well as to staff whose resilience can be tested by the challenges posed by severe brain injury.
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- Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees , pp. 140 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022