According to Robin J.A. in Malette v Shulman[1]‚ “the right of self-determination which underlies the doctrine of informed consent also obviously encompasses the right to refuse medical treatment. A competent adult is generally entitled to reject a specific treatment or all treatment‚ or to select an alternate form of treatment‚ even if the decision may entail risks as serious as death…The doctrine of informed consent is plainly intended to ensure the freedom of individuals to make choices concerning
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ETHICS AND LAW UNIT REFERENCE NFP-1-053 ASSIGNMENT TITLE ADULT CASE STUDY (blood transfusion) I shall discuss the ethical and legal implications of a 70 year old patient who has been admitted to the casualty department after a road traffic accident. He has sustained some severe injuries which require him to have a blood transfusion. However‚ he is refusing the blood transfusion‚ due to his religious beliefs. I shall also discuss the implications of the NMC code of conduct
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To succeed in a claim for false imprisonment‚ the defendant need not be aware of the restraint: Murray v Ministry of Defence. Eg. The defence of best interests of the patient is inapplicable when an adult is of sound mind and she is entitled to refuse medical treatment‚ even if it would save her life: St George’s Healthcare Trust. Eg. The cases of Robinson v Balmain New Ferry and Herd v Weardale Steel suggest that consent to detention once given cannot be revoked so an action in false imprisonment
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org‚ "One in seven people will need a blood transfusion once in their lifetime." A blood transfusion is where a patient is in need of a certain amount of blood due to a significant amount of blood lost. During surgeries‚ anything could go wrong. If a patient’s body is not responding well to the surgery‚ then a blood transfusion could be in order‚ due to the blood lost. The human body needs blood circulating through the body at all times. If not enough blood is circulating then the body could shut
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LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES RESEARCH PAPER 215 February 15‚ 2010 Blood Transfusions‚ Jehovah’s Witnesses‚ and the American Patients’ Rights Movement Charles H. Barron Professor Boston College Law School Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1728983 c44 BLBK256-Maniatis February 15‚ 2010 17:50 Trim: 246mm X 189mm Char Count= C H A P T E R 44 Blood Transfusions‚ Jehovah’s Witnesses‚ and the American Patients’ Rights Movement1 Charles H.
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Death in U.S. Society: Actions and Inactions Guided by Religion Written By Patricia Parrish March‚ 2013 Many religions hold to the belief that thou shall not kill. This is the first of the Ten Commandments in Christianity‚ Jewish and Islamic religions. Even in atheistic religions‚ this belief holds true: Jainism’s first vow is to renounce killing and to deny the right to kill others (Nigosian‚ 2008). But in the United States government and the medical regulations‚ this basic truth lies
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regarding the management and transfusion of red blood cells. This is why the topic has been selected for further study. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature surrounding the safety of red blood cell (RBC) transfusions‚ which comes under standard seven of the National Safety and Quality in Health Service Standards (ACSQHC‚ 2012). It will touch on the complications of RBC transfusion‚ when to transfuse‚ the management of blood loss and the impact of RBC transfusion on critically ill patients
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or withdraw of medical procedures. According to the Federal Patient Self Determination Act of 1990‚ advanced directives are "an individual ’s rights under State law to make decisions concerning such medical care‚ including the right to accept or refuse medical or surgical treatment" and such directives will ensure that the patient ’s wishes are followed to either conduct procedures to save your life or no procedures to allow you to pass on. In either case‚ advanced directives are an extremely
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have ethical health care issues. One which is Blood Transfusions. What is a Blood Transfusion? What are the risks? What can you expect during and what happens before? Who may need one what is the outcome. How many types of Blood Transfusions are there? Blood transfusions are a procedure by which bold is given through a IV hose line. It is then the IV put into your blood vessel. A needle being inserted does all this. In some people the transfusion may take a couple of hours. Even with this process
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recommended that she undergo a hysterectomy to which she agreed because she was in severe pain. While reading the informed consent papers before theatre‚ Carol made an explicit request that she should not be transfused with blood or blood products even in the case of extensive blood loss following surgery. Her reasons for this were that she belonged to a group of Jehovah’s witnesses‚ and it was simply against her beliefs. Ethics can be defined as the philosophical study of the moral value of human
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