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Cuthbertson v Rasouli, 2013 SCC 53, [2013] 3 SCR 341 is a 2013 Canadian medical ethics case concerning whether a hospital may withdraw life-sustaining treatments perceived to be futile without the consent of the patient's representative.
The ethics consultation process must provide a written report to the family of the findings of the ethics review process. If the ethics consultation process fails to resolve the dispute, the hospital, working with the family, must try to arrange transfer to another provider physician and institution who are willing to give the treatment ...
A do-not-resuscitate order (DNR), also known as Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR), Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR [3]), no code [4] [5] or allow natural death, is a medical order, written or oral depending on the jurisdiction, indicating that a person should not receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if that person's heart stops beating. [5]
In March 2003, 12 disability rights groups, led by Not Dead Yet, along with four other amici filed an amicus curiae brief in which they opposed the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube. [80] They also used the Schiavo case to advocate for federal review in cases where third parties decide to withdraw life support from patients unable to give consent.
Debates about the ethics of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide date from ancient Greece and Rome. After the development of ether, physicians began advocating the use of anesthetics to relieve the pain of death. In 1870, Samuel Williams first proposed using anesthetics and morphine to intentionally end a patient's life.
Alfie James Evans (9 May 2016 – 28 April 2018), was an infant boy from Liverpool with an undiagnosed neurodegenerative disorder, [1] later revealed to be GABA-transaminase deficiency. [2] The medical team and the child's parents disagreed about whether to maintain his life support or to withdraw it, resulting in a legal battle.
This often means supporting work at the local or community level to ensure that people can access HIV care in the places where they already go for health and other services, Fanfair explained.
Missouri may, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, require that an incompetent's wish to discontinue life support be proven by clear and convincing evidence before life-sustaining treatment may be withdrawn. Court membership; Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White