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

  Published in:

  Med Law, Vol: 23, Page: 237-50

  Publication Date:

  2004

  Aims & Objectives:

  The article focuses on some of the medico-legal issues that arose as a result of a situation which occurred in May 2001 in Ireland when a woman who was a British citizen and who was fourteen weeks pregnant collapsed and suffered a brain haemorrhage

  Abstract:

  This paper examines some of the medico-legal issues that arose as a result of a situation which occurred in May 2001 in Ireland when a woman who was a British citizen and who was fourteen weeks pregnant collapsed and suffered a brain haemorrhage. She was taken to hospital where she was placed on life support but declared brain-dead. As a result of the uncertainty regarding the hospital's obligation to the foetus, life-support was maintained until further opinion was sought. After two weeks the foetus died and life support was only then discontinued. In Ireland there currently exists neither medical guidelines nor legislation to regulate such areas of medical practice. Also, the courts have not had the opportunity to comment on this particular matter and thus there exists widespread concern as to how healthcare providers will act if such situation were to occur again in the future. This article examines the following difficult medico-legal implications that arise from the above situation and especially in light of the constitutional protection of the unborn child in Ireland.

  Authors:

  A. A. Sheikh; D. A. Cusack

  Study Type:

  Study Papers » Case Report Study » Descriptive Studies - Without a comparision

  Categories:

  maternal-fetus medico-legal issues

  International Classification:

  Legal or care issues

  Keywords:

  • Brain Death/ legislation & jurisprudence
  • Civil Rights/ethics/legislation & jurisprudence
  • Death and Euthanasia
  • Ethics, Clinical
  • Female
  • Fetal Viability
  • Fetus
  • Genetics and Reproduction
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Hemorrhages/complications/mortality
  • Ireland
  • Legal Approach
  • Life Support Care/ethics/legislation & jurisprudence
  • Patient Advocacy/ethics/legislation & jurisprudence
  • Patient Rights/ethics/legislation & jurisprudence
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular/mortality
  • Withholding Treatment/ethics

  
  

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland (Dublin)