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• Title:Withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging medical treatment : guidance for decision-making / British Medical Association.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:British Medical Association.
  
• Published/Created:London : BMJ Books, 2001.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W50 .W57 2001
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics.
  Terminally ill--Great Britain.
  Terminal care--Great Britain.
  Critical care medicine--Great Britain.
  Life and death, Power over.
  
• Medical Subjects: Ethics, Medical.
  Terminal Care.
  Withholding Treatment.
  Advance Directives.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:xvii, 94 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:This book, by the British Medical Association, answers the need amongst all health professionals for guidance on withholding life-prolonging medical treatment, artificial nutrition and hydration.
  
• Notes:Previous edition: 1999.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0727916157 (pbk.)
  9780727916150
  
• Contents:Pt. 1. Setting the scene for decision making
  1. The primary goal of medicine
  2. Scope of this guidance
  3. Definitions
  4. The inevitability of death
  5. The inherent uncertainty in medical treatment
  6. Withholding or withdrawing treatment
  7. How to use this guidance
  Pt. 2. Decisions involving adults who have the capacity to make and communicate decisions or those who have a valid advance directive
  8. Medical assessment
  9. Contemporaneous refusals of life-prolonging treatment
  10. Advance refusals of life-prolonging treatment
  11. Contemporaneous requests for life-prolonging treatment
  12. Advance requests for life-prolonging treatment
  Pt. 3. Decisions involving adults who do not have the capacity to make or communicate decisions and do not have a valid advance directive and decisions involving children and young people
  13. Capacity and incapacity
  14. Duties owed to babies, children and young people
  15. Decision making for babies and young children who cannot consent for themselves
  16. Decision making by competent minors
  17. Medical factors to be considered
  18. Ethical factors to be considered
  19. Legal factors to be considered
  20. Additional guidance
  21. Legal considerations
  22. Additional procedural safeguards
  Pt. 4. Once a decision has been reached to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging treatment
  23. Informing others of the decision
  24. Conscientious objection
  25. Recording and reviewing the decision
  26. Providing support
  Pt. 5. Main points arising from this guidance.