Não implantação e Retirada de Tratamento (British Medical Journal/julho-1999)

British Medical Association Full Contents Foreword Medical Ethics Committee Editorial Board Acknowledgments Introduction PART 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 PART 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 PART 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 PART 3A - Decisions involving adults 13. Capacity and incapacity PART 3B - Decisions involving babies, children and young people 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 PART 3C - The process of decision making for children and adults who lack the ability to make or communicate decisions 17. Medical factors to be considered 18. Ethical factors to be considered 19. Legal factors to be considered PART 3D - Decisions about withholding or withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration 20. Additional guidance 21. Legal considerations 22. Additional procedural safeguards PART 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 PART 5 Main points arising from this guidance Appendix 1 Some Useful Addresses Notes and references Home | Contents Last modified 24th April 2001. © BMJ Books 2001.