MEDRADSC 3Y03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Infant, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Family Values
24 Feb 2020
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Sdm review: public guardian comes when people of equal ranking in the hierarchy cannot come to a decision. Children are not little adults: psychology (ability to reason, physiology (metabolism, absorption, excertion, cognitive ability, therefore ethical concerns different. Infants: neonates, toddlers, school age, pre teens, teens. In order to have capacity, a person must have the ability to. Which of the groups have capacity: we assume teens have capacity, toddlers, do not but you can give them small decisions within the choice, mature teens: who live independently, support themselves have capacity. *over all, the doctor-treating patient decides whether or not they have capacity to make decisions on their own. Innocence: presumed incapable of decision making, need to protect, parental authority, greater potential for conflict parental authority and avoiding harm. Depends on age: parental authority, risk of harm, harm principle. Harm principle: must not abuse or neglect, must provide basic needs. The canadian paediatric society (cps) and the society of obstetricians and.
