Cl. Prof. of Cardiology, UCSF

Cardiology

Dr. Lofty L. Basta, MD

Lofty Basta is an expert in the field of Cardiology. He over the years received 1 awards: "Fellow (FACC)". Lofty L. Basta, MD is also a published doctor. He has 28 paper published. The most recent paper is: Ethical issue: an oath for our time.

Publications

Ethical issue: an oath for our time.
Dying on one's own terms.
End-of-life and other ethical issues related to pacemaker and defibrillator use in the elderly.
Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients.
Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients. Special report: Terri's Tale: dispelling the myths in the Terri Schiavo Ordeal.
Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients. How do you deal with a difficult patient?
End-of-life medical treatment of older cardiac patients.
Better late than never: how congestive heart failure patients die.
Routine implantation of cardioverter/defibrillator devices in patients aged 75 years and older with prior myocardial infarction and left ventricular ejection fraction ...
Ethical issue: The patient undergoes surgery that she knows will not benefit her, hoping that she will die in the process while under anesthesia.
Proper planning for end-of-life medical care; confronting the near irrelevance of currently used living wills.
Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients: a patient asks to put an end to the nightmare of living with a lifesaving AICD.
Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients: a woman executed a living will with provisions that impeded its implementation.
Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients: a competent patient on renal dialysis asks to go home to be under the care of her unqualified husband.
Ethical Issues in the Management of Geriatric Cardiac Patients: A medically impaired patient is determined to operate an automobile against his physicians' advice.
Ethical Issues in the Management of Geriatric Cardiac Patients: A terminally ill patient changes his mind and opts for futile intervention after discovering that his i...
Ethical Issues in the Management of Geriatric Cardiac Patients: A terminal/dying patient endures repeated shocks from an automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillat...
Ethical Issues in the Management of Geriatric Cardiac Patients: An elderly mute and deaf patient with a known history of cardiac dysrrhythmia is evaluated in the absen...
Ethical Issues in the Management of Geriatric Cardiac Patients - Everyone knew he would not have wanted to live like this.but his advance directive was not clear about...
Ethical Issues in the Management of Geriatric Cardiac Patients - A "slow code" is suggested in response to a critical situation involving a patient with mult...
Ethical Issues in the Management of Geriatric Cardiac Patients - A patient with clear, advance instructions to forego placement on a ventilator dies after several week...
Ethical Issues in the Management of Geriatric Cardiac Patients - The wife of a hopelessly terminal patient asks physicians to hasten the moment of death.
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Elderly: Defining the Limits of Appropriateness.
Ethical Issues in the Management of Geriatric Cardiac Patients - An elderly patient declines cardiac surgery under optimal circumstances yet undergoes cardiac surgery ...
Ethical Issues in the Management of Geriatric Cardiac Patients - A family member with power of attorney for an 87 year old patient is requesting removal of the patient...
Ethical Issues in the Management of Geriatric Cardiac Patients - A patient with a living will develops drug-induced Torsades-de-Pointes.
Ethical Issues in the Management of Geriatric Cardiac Patients - A patient is asking his cardiologist to deactivate an implantable cardioverter defibrillator device in...

Conditions Treated

Carotid Artery Disease
Hyperlipidemia

Doctors Specialties

Cardiology

Accepted Insurances

Awards

Fellow (FACC)

Education

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine

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