Withholding consent to lifesaving treatment: three cases

Plasmapheresis: Lifesaving treatment in severe cases of HELLP syndrome

 Abstract  Background: HELLP syndrome is an important complications in pregnancy which increases maternal and fetal mortality. This disease usually remits with supportive treatment which includes prescription of corticosteroid, magnesium sulfate, stabilization of mother and pregnancy termination. Plasmapheresis is a treatment of choice which improves clinical outcomes in complicated cases....

Life and Death Decisions in the Nursery: Standards and Criteria for Withholding Lifesaving Treatment from Infants

Plasmapheresis: Lifesaving treatment in severe cases of HELLP syndrome

BACKGROUND HELLP syndrome is an important complications in pregnancy which increases maternal and fetal mortality. This disease usually remits with supportive treatment which includes prescription of corticosteroid, magnesium sulfate, stabilization of mother and pregnancy termination. Plasmapheresis is a treatment of choice which improves clinical outcomes in complicated cases. CASE PRESENTAT...

Baby Does and the Right to Lifesaving Treatment

In the 1970s, they were a number of cases where children born with disabilities were denied lifesaving surgeries. In some cases, doctors left the decision totally up to the parents who refused the surgery because they were worried about the financial and emotional burden of raising the child. Many of these cases involved children with Down Syndrome (or Trisomy 21) with esophagheal and/or gastro...

Consent to treatment in childhood.