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Author Bhatia, Neera

Title Critically Impaired Infants and End of Life Decision Making : Resource Allocation and Difficult Decisions
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (247 pages)
Series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
Biomedical law and ethics library.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Table of cases; Table of statutes; Table of legislative instruments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Medicine, technology and the law; 1.2 Concepts of life and death and the law; 1.3 Individual autonomy; 1.4 The importance of end of life decision making for extremely premature and critically impaired infants; 1.5 Historical development of neonatology; 1.6 The need to discuss the allocation of finite healthcare resources and infants; 1.7 Purpose and structure of the book; 1.8 Conclusion; 1.9 References
2 The effectiveness of the best interests principle2.1 Sanctity of life perspectives; Judeo-Christian tradition; Greco-Roman principles and the Hippocratic Oath; Declaration of Geneva; 2.2 The best interests principle and the concept of futility; 2.3 Early case law involving infants from the UK; 2.4 Legal and ethical challenges in the English seminal case of Airedale NHS Trust v Bland; Sanctity of life; Substituted judgment test; Reliance on the medical profession; Acts and omissions; Does withdrawal of nutrition and hydration amount to starving to death?
2.5 Selected UK cases involving impaired infants2.6 The turn of the millennium: Re A (conjoined twins); 2.7 Recent decisions: balance sheet of burdens and benefits; 2.8 Early Australian cases involving impaired infants; 2.9 Re Marion and the best interests principle in Australia; 2.10 Re Marion (No 2), the best interests principle and the Family Law Rules 2004; 2.11 Recent cases involving impaired infants; 2.12 The effectiveness of the best interests principle; 2.13 Conclusion; 2.14 References; 3 Non-uniformity in clinical guidelines; 3.1 The threshold of viability
3.2 The very nature of clinical guidelines3.3 Clinical guidelines: United Kingdom; 3.4 Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health: Withholding or Withdrawing Life Sustaining Treatment in Children: A Framework for Practice; 3.5 British Medical Association: Withholding and Withdrawing Life-prolonging Medical Treatment: Guidance for Decision Making; 3.6 General Medical Council: Treatment and Care Towards the End of Life: Good Practice in Decision Making; 3.7 The UK EPICure studies; EPICure Study 1: 1995; EPICure Study 2: 2006
3.8 British Association of Perinatal Medicine: Management of Babies Born Extremely Preterm at Less Than A Framework for Clinical Practice at the Time of Birth3.9 Nuffield Council on Bioethics: Critical Care Decisions in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine: Ethical Issues, 2006: a missed opportunity for the UK?; 3.10 Clinical guidelines Australia: the Royal Australasian College of Physicians: Paediatrics and Child Health Division: Decision Making at the End of Life in Infants, Children and Adolescents (2008); 3.11 Australian guidelines: each hospital to its own
Notes 3.12 Perinatal care at the borderlines of viability: a consensus statement based on New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory consensus workshop (2005): another missed opportunity?
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Subject Neonatal intensive care -- Law and legislation -- Australia
Neonatal intensive care -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
Terminal care -- Law and legislation -- Australia
Terminal care -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
Neonatal intensive care -- Decision making
Terminal care -- Decision making
Neonatal intensive care -- Decision making
Neonatal intensive care -- Law and legislation
Terminal care -- Decision making
Terminal care -- Law and legislation
Australia
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315738383
1315738384