Relatives who refuse to give consent

Consent: Teaching how to give and take

www.ums.ac.uk PCR for the blaVIM carbapenemase gene whilst the E. cloacae was positive for blaNDM-1. On day 50, his antibiotics were changed from colistin and tigecycline to intravenous colistin, aztreonam and fosfomycin on the basis of susceptibility results from ARMRL (Table 1). On day 92, he was discharged following completion of 6 weeks of antibiotic therapy for osteomyelitis and made a ful...

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Responding to Requests for Assisted Reproductive Technology Intervention Involving Women Who Cannot Give Consent.

One of the plots of the Canadian science fiction thriller Orphan Black involves a scheme to create dozens of siblings by harvesting the eggs of one woman, fertilizing them with the sperm of a single man, and implanting them for gestation in dozens of apparently willing surrogates.¹ The casualness of the procedure speaks to how comfortable we have all become with reproduction by technology. Yet ...

Informed consent: Is your patient competent to refuse treatment?

Vol. 8, No. 4 33 Debra A. Pinals, MD Associate professor of psychiatry Director of forensic education Department of psychiatry University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA G ET TY / M A R K U S N A U M A N N Mr. D, age 45 with a history of schizophrenia, is admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit. The psychiatrist recommends an antipsychotic to help Mr. D with fears that the FBI h...

Incapacity to give informed consent owing to mental disorder.

What renders some mentally disordered patients incapable of informed consent to medical interventions? It is argued that a patient is incapable of giving informed consent owing to mental disorder, if a mental disorder prevents a patient from understanding what s/he consents to; if a mental disorder prevents a patient from choosing decisively; if a mental disorder prevents a patient from communi...