Withholding or Withdrawing Life Sustaining Treatment
- This is a preview of the essay.
To view the full text you must login!
WITHHOLDING AND WITHDRAWING LIFE PROLONGING MEDICAL TREATMENT
Joyce Jarosik
Strategies
Grand Island Central Community College
June14, 2004
Withholding and Withdrawing Life Prolonging Medical Treatment
Introduction:
Principle of patient autonomy
A. Social commitment of health care provider
Restore Patient Health
B. Ethnical distinction of life-sustaining treatment
Valid Consent
Who decides
Jessica Meade's mother decision
A. Doctor's opinion
B. Mother's decision
C. Jessica's outcome
Protocol to withdraw therapy
A. American Medical Association's eight-step protocol
B. When patient cannot speak
Advances Directives
Surrogate decision maker
Hierarchy of family relationships
IV. Five situation that require judicial review
V. Carole Thompson's story
A...