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- Title
Do physicians require consent to withhold CPR that they determine to be nonbeneficial?
- Authors
Downar, James; Close, Eliana; Sibbald, Robert
- Abstract
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently determined that, under both Ontario's health care consent legislation and common law, physicians do not require consent to withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) that they believe to be medically inappropriate. Notably, while that conflict resolution process is underway, "physicians must provide all resuscitative efforts required by the standard of care, which may include CPR."[7] Essentially, physicians are still obliged to respond to a cardiac arrest; however, that response does not have to include CPR that would be outside the standard of care.
- Subjects
PHYSICIANS; PHYSICIAN-patient relations
- Publication
Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), 2019, Vol 191, Issue 47, pE1289
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1503/cmaj.191196