RT Book, Section A1 Nwulu, Chika A1 Collo Go, Ronaldo A2 Go, Ronaldo Collo SR Print(0) ID 1160188306 T1 Ethics, Death, and Organ Donation T2 Critical Care Examination and Board Review YR 2019 FD 2019 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259834356 LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1160188306 RD 2024/11/04 AB Ethics is a moral code of what we believe to be universally accepted principles of rightness and wrongness that influences our medical decisions. Ever-advancing technology and therapies constantly challenge and call into question previously established ethical norms. The most accessible approach is committing to the following principles: respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.1 These principles are dependent on a thorough understanding of the patient’s illness and how medical interventions, or the lack of will, impact his quality of life. What to advise may not be so easy and often the progress of the clinical course and morbidity and predictive scores are used to give the physician, patient, and family the global perspective into his illness.