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39 - The abusive and disruptive physician
from 5 - Practice issues
- By Stephen Jackson
Edited by Gail A. Van Norman, University of Washington, Stephen Jackson, Stanley H. Rosenbaum, Susan K. Palmer
Book:

Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology

Published online:

05 March 2012

Print publication:

28 October 2010, pp 235-239
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Summary

This chapter presents a case study which contains a number of ethical issues of concern that could arise in other clinical anesthesiology research. A group of anesthesia researchers undertook a research project to determine if injection of a sedative drug into the subarachnoid space would improve effectiveness of pain control post-operatively for labor and delivery. The chapter focuses on the ethics of conducting research involving human subjects, in particular, some of the main ethical issues that arise with the kind of research conducted by anesthesiologists in clinical settings. It discusses the three areas where these issues are especially important for the ethical conduct of clinical anesthesiology research: enrollment and consent, potential conflicts of interest, and the balance of risk and benefit. Subjects should be given sufficient time to reflect on the information they are given about the research study.