Critical Care
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This article is part of a series on ICU Leadership and management, edited by Thomas E Stewart.ReviewBench-to-bedside review: Ethical challenges for those in directing roles in critical care unitsRobert W Sibbald1  and Neil M Lazar2  1Research Associate, Department of Medicine and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada  author email corresponding author email
Critical Care 2005,
9:76-80doi:10.1186/cc2979
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Abstract
Though much attention in the medical literature has focused on the ethics of critical care, it seems to be disproportionately weighted toward clinical issues. On the presumption that the operational management of an intensive care unit (ICU) also requires ethical considerations, it would be useful to know what these are. This review undertook to identify what literature exists with regard to the non-clinical issues of ethical importance in the ICU as encountered by clinician–managers. We found that in addition to issues of resource allocation, there exist many areas of ethical importance to clinician–managers in the ICU that have been described only superficially. We argue that a renewed focus on ICU ethics is merited to shed light on these other, non-clinical, issues. | 
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