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dc.contributor.authorComadira, Gregory
dc.contributor.authorHervey, Lucy
dc.contributor.authorWinearls, James
dc.contributor.authorYoung-Jamieson, James
dc.contributor.authorMarshall, Andrea
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T01:40:04Z
dc.date.available2018-01-22T01:40:04Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1036-7314
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.aucc.2015.04.004
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/167261
dc.description.abstractClinicians make decisions about patient management on a daily basis and are required to act in a way that is both legally and ethically correct. To act legally requires compliance with a set of rules which reflect the values and interests of society. Ethical decisions are based on what we believe as a group to be morally right. Morals are, however, unique to the individual. Balancing the legal, ethical and moral dimensions of clinical decisions has the potential, therefore, to generate conflict for the individual practitioner. In this paper we report a case study of a patient with a high cervical spine injury resulting in quadriplegia, without prospect of a ventilator independent life. The patient, who was assessed as having capacity to make decisions, subsequently elected to have treatment withdrawn. In this case, withdrawal of treatment constituted removal of mechanical ventilation which ultimately resulted in death. The patient also requested for his organs to be donated after he was deceased. This case study, to our knowledge, is the first report of donation after cardiac death following a high cervical spinal injury in a cognitively intact patient. As such, this case study allows us to discuss the moral, ethical and legal implications of donation after cardiac death following withdrawal of medical treatment.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom72
dc.relation.ispartofpageto76
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Critical Care
dc.relation.ispartofvolume28
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchNursing
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3202
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4205
dc.titleDo you have a right to decide? Or do we have a right to acquiesce?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorMarshall, Andrea


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