A 19-Year-Old Man Is Seriously Injured in a Multi-Car Accident

A 19-year-old man is seriously injured in a multi-car accident on a busy highway.  He was driving a motorcycle when a car changed lanes unexpectedly and hit him.  He lost control and slid under an oncoming truck.  The patient is unresponsive when paramedics arrive on the scene.  They provide initial stabilization of the patient and transport him to the nearest emergency department.  At the hospital, health care providers continue aggressive, life-saving measures, including endotracheal intubation with mechanical ventilation, even though the unconscious patient is not able to give consent.  They also work tirelessly to control the patient's hemorrhaging.  In providing these interventions, the physicians involved are most readily applying which of the following ethical principles of medicine?

A) Autonomy
B) Beneficence
C) Integrity
D) Justice
E) Nonmaleficence

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