[PDF] Top 20 Forgoing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment in Abused Children

... prosecutor may bring a charge of manslaughter or murder after the child’s death, the prosecutor has an apparent conflict of interest in arguing before the court in favor of forgoing LSMT. It also may be difficult ... See full document

... a life-sustaining treatment tends to be very challenging for health care providers, patients, and their family members ...s life seems to be nearing its end, it is generally felt that the ... See full document

... A final ethical consideration concerns the role of parents or guardians in decision-making about the withdrawal of life-sustaining measures. Parents who are seeking their children’s best interests are ... See full document

... their children until doctors suspect and judges agree that they are not acting in the best interest of the ...seek medical care after her rupture of membranes, in concert with her presumed illicit substance ... See full document

... Whether they are child patients, parents, or other surrogates, health care decision makers have the ethi- cal and legal right to adequate information about rea- sonably available diagnos[r] ... See full document

... during the early hours or days of life. Uncertainties are magnified by the changing limits of viability as the practice of neonatology advances and because withholding initial treatment may worsen outcomes ... See full document

... As medical care providers, we not only preserve life as we know and accept it, but at the same time do not want to do things that we find morally ...about treatment decisions is the most difference ... See full document

... Growth failure appeared to be reversible; gross measurements at the time of reevalu- ation gave no indication that many children had failed to thrive as infants. The other deficiencies w[r] ... See full document

... a life of nonviolence, including choosing to act differently than their parents, 2) understanding and accepting childhood realities, including their fathers/stepfathers’ abusive actions, 3) choosing to forgive ... See full document

... For each outcome variable below, results are first given for univariate analyses. These are followed by results from regression analyses, in which outcome was adjusted for factors that differed significantly between ... See full document

... The study additionally sought insights into the kinds of problems, beyond medical complica tions, that the abused child had, the child's own need for treatment beyond that which the pare[r] ... See full document

... Percentage of mothers of sexually abused children from each of three response groups who were pressing charges against perpetrator.. Percentage of mothers of sexually abused children fro[r] ... See full document

... When the last several decades are reviewed, it is fascinating to consider the evolution of the law with respect to decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment-from [r] ... See full document

... while medical staff insist on withholding ...the medical staff who are professionally involved would like to use a drip, but a knowledgeable relative requests no ...the medical team will need to make ... See full document

... The entire controversy concerning what conditions justify the with- drawal of life-sustaining treatment from a person in a persistent vege- tative state would disappear[r] ... See full document

... a medical order or in the progress notes, which was also deemed ...for life-sustaining ...for life-sustaining treatments, measured as the number of MOST categories between a ... See full document

... It has been shown that teachers‟ positive attitudes towards inclusion depend strongly on their experience with learners who are perceived as “challenging”. Teacher education, the availability of support within the ... See full document

... As the ACP Video Program is implemented facility-wide, all patients in the intervention and control facilities during the planned18-month implementation period comprise the study population. However, for analytic ... See full document

... of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada (FMRAC) whether or not they had been consulted on Bill C-14 and FMRAC said they had ...advance medical regulation on behalf of the public through collaboration, ... See full document

... of these limitations are as follows: (1) the attorney-in-fact may only withdraw or refuse to consent to life-sustaining treatment 8 2 if the principal is in a terminal condition or [r] ... See full document