This title reviews the bioethical issues in congenital heart disease and other difficult pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgical situations. It provides considered opinions and recommendations as to the preferred actions to take in these cases, stressing the importance of making informed decisions that are bioethically sound and doing so using considered reasoning of all the related sensitive issues.

Bioethical Controversies in Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery provides detailed recommendations on potential solutions to make bioethical decisions in difficult clinical scenarios. There is particular emphasis on controversies involving surgery for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, futility, informed consent, autonomy, genomics, and beneficence. It is intended for use by a wide range of practitioners, including congenital heart surgeons, pediatric cardiologists, pediatric intensivists, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, and clinical ethicists. 

 

Preface

Introduction to Biomedical Ethics
Autonomy and the Principles of Medical Practice
Informed Consent
Conflict of Interest
Ethics of Surgical Innovation for Congenital Heart Diseases
Ethical Considerations in Patients with Extracardiac or Genetic Anomalies
Medical Futility:When Further Therapy is Hopeless
Ethical Issues Surrounding the use of Post Cardiotomy ECMO
Rare Diagnoses and Allocation of Precious Resources
Abortion Rights
Fetal Cardiac  Interventions
Ethical Considerations in the Transcatheter Management of Congenital Heart Disease
Informed Consent in Fetal Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Role of Ethics Consultation in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease
Ethics, Justice, and the Province of American Medicine: A Discussion of the Politicalization of the Duty to Care for Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients who are in the Country Illegally
The unintended consequences of public reporting
Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Between Death and Donation: Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Active and Passive Euthanasia (killing and letting die) in the Context of Severe Congenital Heart Disease
Ethical and Legal Controversies Concerning Consolidation of Congenital Heart Programs in The United States of America.