Bringing the Hospital Home: Ethical and Social Implications of High-Tech Home Care [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. High-technology medical devices - for treatments such as kidney dialysis, total parenteral nutrition, the infusion of antibiotics and respiratory ventilation - are making it possible for people with chronically acute conditions to live longer. And with the current fiscal pressures to reduce the length of hospital stay, these people are being discharged to their homes, assisted by portable life-support systems. But the introduction of high-tech devices into the home setting - the fastest growing sector of the health care economy - poses a new set of ethical and social challenges.

Bringing the Hospital Home : Ethical and Social Implications of High-Tech Home Care, Used [Hardcover]