Posted on 01/08/2021 3:52:48 AM PST by RandFan
Doctors can stop providing life-support treatment to a five-year-old Strood girl is in a vegetative state, a High Court judge has ruled.
Specialists treating Pippa Knight at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in London said life-support treatment should end.
Hospital bosses had asked Mr Justice Poole to rule that ending treatment, and allowing Pippa to die, would be lawful and in her best interests.
Pippa’s mother, Paula Parfitt, 41, of Strood, Kent, disagreed.
Ms Parfitt wanted Pippa, who is brain damaged, to be placed on a portable ventilator and allowed home.
Mr Justice Poole, who heard evidence at a trial in the Family Division of the High Court in London in December, ruled on Friday that life-support treatment should end and Pippa should be allowed to die.
“Ms Parfitt has fought as hard for Pippa as any parent could,” he said in his ruling.
“Responsibility for the decisions in this case lies with the court, not with her. My conclusion is that continued mechanical ventilation is contrary to Pippa’s best interests.”
He added that he “cannot give weight to Ms Parfitt’s view that home care would improve Pippa’s condition, because it is at odds with the unanimous view of the clinicians and medical experts”.
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Pay special attention to the bit about the "national frailty score".
Let's hear it for single payer.
If they were rich,wouldn’t have these problems....Just ask dems in USA...
I thought Britain fought the nazis over the issue of a government’s right to decide who is “worthy of life” and who has to be discarded as useless and a burden to the state?
Psalms 118:17
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
That was before they nationalized health care.
This is socialized medicine. We’ll tell you when it’s time to die.
Maybe they can use it on Biden. He’s a worthless specimen
TS...rip TS
Vegetative state means nothing.
Four years ago, my dentist had a heart attack, was hospitalized and then went into a coma after a week; a day or two later he was pronounced brain dead. Since he had signed up as an organ donor, the hospital kept him on life support while they scheduled various patients to receive his organs.
As they made the first incision in his chest to start the harvesting process, he sat up screaming and wanted to know what the hell was going on.
He went back to his practice a couple months later and filled one of my cavities last year.
And the Lefty mindset is, in essence: “Hey, you are taking up space from someone else who could use that bed.....”
I appreciate the idea that continued life support may not improve this girl’s circumstances, however putting her on a portable ventilator and sending her home is not unreasonable.
This judge is a ghoul
Notwithstanding this article which I find troubling I sincerely doubt he sat up and screamed. We generally use anesthesia in organ harvests in order to maintain hemodynamics. You are describing a beating heart donation. In a non beating heart donation the patient has to be in asystole for three minutes before incision.
On a greater level the concerning thing is the court substituting its judgment for the parent.
Many people don’t understand what exactly a PVS is and I don’t really want to redebate all the cases (cruzan, schaivo etc) there are thousands of articles on the ethics. But what concerns me is the distortion of actual truth and clinical understanding. There is a lot of garbage statements already on this thread.
A beating heart "donation" is simply murder; no different than the godless Aztecs.
Notwithstanding your judgments, I am merely imparting the two types of donation that are undertaken in the United States, and the falsehood of someone sitting up on skin incision. That was fake news.
A beating heart donation is undertaken when there is established brain death, which in all jurisdictions is considered death.
Isn't "brain death" a subjective judgement call?
I’m sure you can educate yourself using the millions and millions of articles written on the subject
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