RT Book, Section A1 O'Keefe, Shannon D. A1 Harrington, Lori L. A2 Cooney, Derek R. SR Print(0) ID 1126790554 T1 Capacity and Refusal of Care T2 Cooney's EMS Medicine YR 2016 FD 2016 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071775649 LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126790554 RD 2024/04/19 AB Due to the difficulty in addressing the ethics and science of determining a patient's ability to participate in important medical decision making, it is important to review basic medical ethics principles. In order for these principles to be more fully understood, this chapter includes a number of clinical vignettes that are used to introduce principles and discuss their implementation in the prehospital environment.