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Building the restored future
Published in Stuart K. Allison, Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change, 2012
We will be well served by adopting the fundamental principle of medical ethics – primum non nocere – first do no harm. Restorationists, like physicians, are faced with a situation in which the patient (for us an ecosystem) is suffering some loss of function. The patient’s structure may have been damaged, thus causing the loss of function. Sometimes the cause is obvious and we have techniques that will allow us to help the patient recover full function. But sometimes, probably more frequently, the cause is not obvious. There may be multiple causes. There are many procedures we might use either alone or in concert to assist recovery. In those cases we have to use methods that will not lead to additional harm – or perhaps as the example from Macquarie Island shows us – at the least we must use methods that will not knowingly cause additional harm. We must remember that ultimately the patient (ecosystem) will heal itself – it must use its own physiology to resolve and recover from illness (Clewell and Aronson 2007). All we can do is initiate the conditions that will facilitate healing and then step back to monitor the situation and provide additional assistance if necessary. And, following Saint Aldo’s advice on intelligent tinkering, we must save all the parts, because even if we don’t know what they all do, they may all be important in the functioning of our ecosystem (Leopold 1949). Above all we must be cautious in our choices and not so eager that we immediately start manipulating damaged ecosystems before we have carefully examined their past history, current conditions, the potential causes for their condition and what we have learned from other restorations that may apply to new restorations.
Analysis Of Volatile Organic Compounds For Cancer Diagnosis
Published in Raquel Cumeras, Xavier Correig, Volatile organic compound analysis in biomedical diagnosis applications, 2018
Abigail V. Rutter, Josep Sulé-Suso
Primum non nocere (first, do no harm) is a fundamental principle in medicine, taught in medical schools all over the world reminding health professionals to consider the possible harm that any intervention could cause to patients. The quest to develop interventions for the management of disease that would cause as little as possible harm to patients goes back to ancient Greece and is still an important issue to be taken into account in medical research today. Thus, it does not come as a surprise that something not invasive, such as using breath for the management of disease, draws researchers’ attention worldwide.
Ethics and assistive technology: Potential issues for AT service providers
Published in Assistive Technology, 2021
Noel Estrada-Hernandez, Patricia Bahr
Ethical behavior in assistive technology service delivery, counseling, psychology, and many other helping professions has been framed based on five ethical principles, “the golden five” (Kitchener, 1985), which guide professional performance and guarantee quality services. These five principles are intended to ensure client welfare, the professional’s responsibility, accountability, and professional behavior. Cottone and Tarvydas (2016, p.94) described these five principles as: Beneficence – To do good; to help and positively impact clients.Nonmaleficence – “Primum non nocere” (“first let us do no harm”); to act so as to not harm clients.Justice – to be fair and egalitarian.Autonomy – to allow opportunity for self-determination and decision-making; to honor the right to individual decisions.Fidelity – to be loyal, honest, and to keep promises.
An equipment qualification framework for healthcare
Published in IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 2020
Dermot Hale, Enda F. Fallon, Christine FitzGerald
The primary guiding principle for healthcare practitioners is captured by the Latin phrase Primum non nocere which means “first, do no harm.” Medical equipment, as a critical resource in the healthcare system, must support healthcare practitioners in achieving this goal. However, in the complex system that is healthcare adverse events do occur. While the immediate cause of an adverse event involving medical equipment may be failure of the device and/or use error, typically causes of adverse events are multifactorial in origin, with latent factors, faults, errors, and mistakes aligning together. Latent factors, aspects of the system predisposing threat or error, in particular have been identified as causes of patient safety incidents. It follows, therefore, that the identification of latent errors prior to clinical use will reduce the probability of adverse events occurring.