Hornsby Hospital, Sydney, NSW. Simon M Willcock, MB BS(Hons), FRACGP, Director, Academic General Practice Unit; Michele G Daly, BSc(Hons), MSc, Senior Research Officer. Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW. Christopher C Tennant, MD, MPH, FRANZCP, Head of Department of Psychological Medicine. Wollongong Hospital, Wollongong, NSW. Benjamin J Allard, BA, MB BS, Junior Medical Officer. Reprints...

Methods The interventional randomized controlled trial included critically ill patients at high risk for ICUAW selected by SOFA score ≥ 9 and onset of critical illness in less than 72 hours. Randomization was administered to EMS group (protocol base physiotherapy and additional EMS) or a physiotherapy group (protocol base physiotherapy). EMStherapy was applied for 20 minutes 7 days/week to 8 bi...

In 1993 The Parliament of the World's Religions produced a declaration known as A Global Ethic which set out fundamental points of agreement on moral tissues between the religions of the world. However, the declaration did not deal explicitly with medical ethics. This article examines Buddhist and Christian perspectives on euthanasia and finds that in spite of their cultural and theological dif...

Since eight years a group for surgical robotics research is established at the Institute for Process Control and Robotics (IPR). Starting with the Collaborative Research Center 414, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), our reseach interests cover all topics concerning support of surgical interventions. A basic work flow from patient data acquisition to intraoperative supporting syste...

UNLABELLED Ethical concerns, cultural norms, and legal issues must be carefully considered when treating a patient with heart disease. Although physicians or surgeons must play a role in course of treatment decision making, they should be guided by evidence-based data and the preferences of patients and/or the patient's parents. However, there is no obligation to provide this type of informed c...

Hornsby Hospital, Sydney, NSW. Simon M Willcock, MB BS(Hons), FRACGP, Director, Academic General Practice Unit; Michele G Daly, BSc(Hons), MSc, Senior Research Officer. Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW. Christopher C Tennant, MD, MPH, FRANZCP, Head of Department of Psychological Medicine. Wollongong Hospital, Wollongong, NSW. Benjamin J Allard, BA, MB BS, Junior Medical Officer. Reprints...

This article draws on two studies that have used an ethic of care analysis to explore lay, nursing and social work care for people with dementia. It discusses the political as well as the practice application of ethic of care principles and highlights the necessity to understand both what people do and the meanings with which such practices are imbued in order to identify ;good care' and the re...

This study seeks to determine the impact of IT co-workers on individual deviance behavior in organizations. Using data collected from 322 IT employees and their supervisors in Chinese software companies, we also examine the impact of the Confucian work ethic on deviant behavior. The results suggest that both co-workers’ production deviance and the Confucian work ethic have impacts on individual...

The history of the regulation of animal research is essentially the history of the emergence of meaningful social ethics for animals in society. Initially, animal ethics concerned itself solely with cruelty, but this was seen as inadequate to late 20(th)-century concerns about animal use. The new social ethic for animals was quite different, and its conceptual bases are explored in this paper. ...