Emergency Preparedness – Ethical Principles in Emergency Care

Ethical Principles in Emergency Care- Substantive Values

• Individual Liberty

• Protection of the Public

• Proportionality – care is provided in proportion to the risk and in proportion to the level of care provided other patients

• Privacy

• Duty to Provide

• Reciprocity

• Equity Care

• Trust

• Solidarity

• Stewardship

In disasters standards don’t change – application of standards changes.