MORAL ASPECTS OF TRAINING EMS PERSONNEL

S. Konstanczak

doi:10.15372/PEMW20160411

MORAL ASPECTS OF TRAINING EMS PERSONNEL

S. Konstanczak

https://doi.org/10.15372/PEMW20160411

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Abstract

In this article the author introduces the most important moral dilemmas which the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) face. Since everybody may be in need of emergency medical service, it is important that such a service is universal and help is provided as quickly as possible. This requires that EMS personnel possess particular moral qualifications which at the same time constitutes a great psychological burden

Keywords

Emergency Medicine (EMS), ethics of medicine, education, critical situations in medicine, moral decision,

About the Author

S. Konstanczak

Institute of Philosophy, University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, Poland
Russian Federation
Professor, Chairman at the ethics section, Institute of Philosophy, University of Zielona Gora. Member of the Committee of Philosophical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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For citation: Konstanczak S. MORAL ASPECTS OF TRAINING EMS PERSONNEL. Professional education in the modern world. 2016;6(4):650-657. https://doi.org/10.15372/PEMW20160411

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