Maternal brain death, pregnancy and the foetus: The medico-legal implications for Ireland

Medicine and Law

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 237-250

  Sheikh, Asim A ^a   Cusack, Denis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Consent; Duty to sustain corpse of a dead pregnant woman; Foetal viability; Guidelines for medical practitioners; Irish Constitution; Irish Law; Maternal brain death; Maternal foetal conflict; Rights of the mother; Rights of the unborn child

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COLLAPSE; COURT; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; IRELAND; LEGAL ASPECT; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; UNITED KINGDOM; CIVIL RIGHTS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; ETHICS; FETAL WELL BEING; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; LEGAL APPROACH; MORTALITY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT RIGHT; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; LEGAL APPROACH;

BRAIN DEATH; CIVIL RIGHTS; ETHICS, CLINICAL; FEMALE; FETAL VIABILITY; FETUS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; IRELAND; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT RIGHTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 4644252115     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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