Analysis of Legal and Ethical Considerations in Withdrawing Treatment

This essay delves into the complex legal and ethical issues surrounding the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, a critical aspect of end-of-life care. It highlights the importance of ethical principles such as autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice in making informed decisions. The ...Read More

Legal and Ethical Issues

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
MAIN BODY
Withdrawal of life sustaining treatment issue
Ethical theory relating with withdrawal of life sustain treatment issues
Consider synergy between law and ethical theory
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
 End of life care includes the physical, social, emotional and
spiritual support which can be effective for patient and their
families.
 This is the one that are effective and lead to create high impact
on delivery of better and effective response toward individual
health.
 In this, there are various ethical concern which arises while
deliver of end of life care.
 In this, report there is selection of withdrawal of life sustaining
treatment which can be ethical issues and is part of discussion
which include different ethical dilemma and are associates with
different care.

Reason to provide end of life
care
 While delivering healthcare service there is need to provide better
and effective healthcare service which can be effective and can
help to provide better healthcare support to improve patient health.
 There is need to provide end of life care which should be taken in
consideration where it is essential to provide effective care that
influence effective response toward patient health improvement.
 There is need to take care of effective health where patient when
not getting health benefits from any medication or other health care
service where they should need to manage their health through
getting different management and medication.

Life sustaining treatment
 When any of medication or healthcare treatment are not
working and are not able to provide positive impact
through it.
 In such situation, there is need to withdraw the life
sustaining treatment.
 Here, life sustaining treatment refers to treatment which
service to prolong life without create any impact or
reversing any medical condition.
 This may include cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
haemodialysis, mechanical ventilation, antibiotics, left
ventricular assist device or artificial nutrition along with
hydration.

Withdrawal of life sustaining treatment
issue
There are 4 main ethical principles of end of life
includes: autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence
and justice.
 Autonomous decision making
 Physician's role and responsibilities to resolve the
issue
 Advance directives
 Rationing of Care and Futile treatment
 Costs involved in end-of-life care

Ethical theory relating with
withdrawal of life sustain
treatment issues
 There is need to provide better and effective healthcare service which
can be effective and help to deliver better care to individual regarding
getting positive health.
 In this, there are large number of elder people who are facing the
ethical issues in getting healthcare serviced.
 Here, end of life care can be effective and help to provide better
improvement to quality of life which are associated with improving
patient health and enable them to cope with the illness, death, their
disability and honourable health process.
 This is an effective technique which can help patient to live their
remaining life effectively with coping with their health issues or illness
through managing it more effectively to reduce the impact at end of
life (Boys and et. al., 2022).

Consider synergy between law
and ethical theory
 Synergy refers to the concept of value and performance
which includes different combination which work combine
and have more positive impact rather than working
separately.
 Low and ethics can work separately where ethics includes
the core principle of autonomy, beneficence, non-
maleficence and justice within medical and healthcare
decision.
 This can be effective to deliver better care and support to
patient through following the judgements and decision which
are based on values which includes law and govern them.

CONCLUSION
 From the above discussion, it can be concluded that there are large
number of older age people who need end of life care to improve and
cope with their illness.
 There are many cases in which people who are getting life supporting
treatment are not enough to improve patient health. In such situation
providing life supporting treatment can be worthless where removing or
withdrawal of life supporting treatment can not have any negative health
impact.
 This can be point of ethical concern and ethical issues which should take
in consideration about its importance. There is also discussion about the
ethical theories related with this issues. This also includes the synergy
between law along with ethical theories.

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