tailieunhanh - Extreme Prematurity - Practices, Bioethics, And The Law Part 8

Năm 2006 các trẻ sơ sinh nhỏ đến 450 gram và chỉ mới 22 tuần tuổi thai có thêm cơ hội cứu sống. Tại những đơn vị chăm sóc tích cực trẻ sơ sinh hiện đại, những trẻ có cân nặng 1000 gram và chỉ 27 tuần tuổi thai có khoảng 90% cơ hội sống và đa số có phát triển thần kinh bình thường. | THE LAW inhuman or degrading treatment. The principle of best interests of the child also overrules the rights of parents under ECHR Article 8 which grants the right to respect for private and family life see re A . 360 A similar case to NHS v. D occurred in Portsmouth and was well publicized. Doctors in a Portsmouth hospital issued a do not attempt resuscitation order for baby Charlotte Wyatt on the basis that further aggressive treatment was not in the best interests of the child. The parents opposed this. The 11-month-old baby was born at 26 weeks and was said to only experience pain. She had extensive lung and brain damage was tube fed and was dependent on supplemental oxygen. The High Court supported the doctors and in essence ruled that her quality of life was so poor that she was better off dead. 361 Some might argue that a correct decision had been reached but for the wrong reasons. The last instance involves a British case that was tried in the European Court of Human Rights. This case involved lifesustaining treatment for a severely disabled child and the administration of diamorphine without consent. The events involved physical assault between the medical staff the family and the police in addition to inflexible demands from all involved. The full details of this are not described but for those interested the situation as it arose was an object lesson on how not to proceed when there is a dispute concerning the foregoing of life-sustaining treatment for a severely disabled child. 362 The applicants to the court the mother and the child stated that there had been a failure to ensure effective respect for the child s right to physical and moral integrity within the meaning of private life as guaranteed by Article 8 of the ECHR. The court considered that the decision to impose treatment the administration of diamorphine on the child in defiance of the mother s objection interfered with the child s right to respect for his private life and in particular his

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