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Parents lose fight to save baby Charlotte
(Filed: 21/04/2005)
The parents of a seriously ill baby have lost their legal battle to overturn a court order allowing doctors to let her die if she stops breathing.
But High Court judge Mr Justice Hedley has said the order is not open-ended and remains subject to review.
Debbie Wyatt
Darren and Debbie Wyatt held hands at the back of the London courtroom as the judge said: "I am quite clear that it would not be in Charlotte's best interests to die in the course of futile aggressive treatment."
He said that in the event of respiratory collapse, all treatment up to but not including intubation and ventilation would be in Charlotte's best interests, "but nothing further".
Doctors at St Mary's Hospital in Portsmouth won the legal right last October not to resuscitate Charlotte - now 18 months old - after arguing that her brain and other organs were so seriously damaged that she had "no feeling other than continuing pain".
But it now appears that Charlotte could survive for a considerable time, possibly years, although the medical prognosis for her quality of life is still poor.
Charlotte spends most of her time in an oxygen box, but is taken out to be cuddled by her parents when they visit.
Doctors still insist that resuscitating her if she stops breathing will be "pointless and possibly inhumane" because it will only prolong her suffering.
At a renewed hearing earlier this year, Mr Justice Hedley was told by the parents that Charlotte could now see and hear to a limited extent - and smile.
Charlotte weighed 1lb and measured only five inches when she was born three months prematurely in October 2003.
She has serious brain, lung and kidney damage. Her survival has confounded predictions that she would not last the winter because she was bound to succumb to a respiratory infection.
The judge said today that he is delighted that Charlotte has survived the winter.
But she still requires 50 per cent oxygen and will not be able to return home unless that is reduced to 30 per cent or lower.
Her ability to respond to loud noise and track the movement of a colourful toy is in contrast to her condition last October when she was almost wholly unresponsive and required almost constant sedation.
But Charlotte's chronic respiratory disease is still expected to be fatal and her neurological condition is as bad as it could be.
Her head is still the size of a new-born baby and there has been no brain growth. Fed continuously through a tube, she is seriously undernourished. She remains "a terminally ill child", the judge said.
"At the same time, I don't think that the courts have the right to kill patients (ala Terri Schiavo)."
Exactly...
Try this thread. A *little* different perspective. It seems to me as though this court, also, has that end in mind. As far as why they haven't tried another hospital, I don't know. Kind of looks like a financial issue....this baby needs a fund.
"At the same time, I don't think that the courts have the right to kill patients (ala Terri Schiavo)."
Exactly...
Try this thread. A *little* different perspective. It seems to me as though this court, also, has that end in mind. As far as why they haven't tried another hospital, I don't know. Kind of looks like a financial issue....this baby needs a fund.
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18 July 2005
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