Add to ORKGDecisions to withhold or withdraw medical hydration and nutrition are amongst the most difficult that confront patients and their families, medicaland other health professionals all over the world. This article discusses two cases relating to lawful withdrawal and withholding of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube (PEG) from incompetent patients with no hope of recovery. Victoria and Florida have statutory frameworks that provide for advance directives, however in both Gardner; Re BWV and Schindler v Schiavo; Re Scliiavo the respective patients did not leave documented instructions. The article analyses the two cases and their outcomes from legal, medical and ethical perspectives
This Comment will address the right to withdraw nutrition and hydration from the growing number of e...
Who should decide when to discontinue life support when such treatment appears to be hopeless? This ...
Medical futility disputes occur frequently in healthcare facilities across the United States. In thi...
In this article we reassess the court’s role in the withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and ...
Biomedical advances nowadays enable physicians to keep patients hovering at the brink of death for m...
In W v M, family members made an application to the Court of Protection for withdrawal of artificial...
In this article, we reassess the court's role in the withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and...
The withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration or other life-sustaining treatments is a clinic...
• The Victorian Supreme Court has decided that artificial nutrition and hydration provided thro...
The Washington Supreme Court in In re Grantsought to determine whether life sustaining treatment co...
Missouri’s Death-Prolonging Procedures Act of 1985 represents an effort to ensure that an individual...
The President\u27s Commission Report Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment comes down squarel...
A surrogate decision maker may conclude that efforts to mechanically provide liquid nourishment woul...
Physicians involved in the care of elderly patients are often faced with end-of-life decisions inclu...
Recent count indicates that 10,000 Americans now remain, for whatever reason, in an incurable and pe...
This Comment will address the right to withdraw nutrition and hydration from the growing number of e...
Who should decide when to discontinue life support when such treatment appears to be hopeless? This ...
Medical futility disputes occur frequently in healthcare facilities across the United States. In thi...
In this article we reassess the court’s role in the withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and ...
Biomedical advances nowadays enable physicians to keep patients hovering at the brink of death for m...
In W v M, family members made an application to the Court of Protection for withdrawal of artificial...
In this article, we reassess the court's role in the withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and...
The withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration or other life-sustaining treatments is a clinic...
• The Victorian Supreme Court has decided that artificial nutrition and hydration provided thro...
The Washington Supreme Court in In re Grantsought to determine whether life sustaining treatment co...
Missouri’s Death-Prolonging Procedures Act of 1985 represents an effort to ensure that an individual...
The President\u27s Commission Report Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment comes down squarel...
A surrogate decision maker may conclude that efforts to mechanically provide liquid nourishment woul...
Physicians involved in the care of elderly patients are often faced with end-of-life decisions inclu...
Recent count indicates that 10,000 Americans now remain, for whatever reason, in an incurable and pe...
This Comment will address the right to withdraw nutrition and hydration from the growing number of e...
Who should decide when to discontinue life support when such treatment appears to be hopeless? This ...
Medical futility disputes occur frequently in healthcare facilities across the United States. In thi...