Janet Tracey: Court of Appeal Judgement
Ethics Committee Summary of Tracey Court of Appeal judgement 2014 – telling patients about DNAR decisions 1. No doctor is obliged to give futile treatments and attempted resuscitation is a treatment. 2. Document everythingon DNACPR form and in medical notes. Did you discuss DNACPR with patient? If not, why too ill, lost capacity, what specific harm you feared causing patient…