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CBS Publishers & Distributors Legal Issues in Critical Care 1st Edition 2022 by Baldwa Mahesh
Legal Issues in Critical Care aims to provide in-depth knowledge of various legal aspects to most vulnerable doctors of medical branch practicing critical care. During the last few years important new legislations have been enacted and landmark Supreme Court judgments pronounced related to the topics like ‘living wills’, ‘do not resuscitate (DNR)’, ‘passive euthanasia’. The new legislations and Supreme Court verdicts essentially revolve around Consumer Protection Act, 2019, replacing old Consumer Protection Act, 1986, and new National Medical Commission Act, 2019, replacing old Indian Medical Council Act, 1956. This book is written primarily to enlighten the Indian critical care practicing doctors and lawyers dealing with the litigation related to healthcare system in the law courts. It can be used as a preventive tool for litigation by practicing critical care doctors of all systems of medicine. This will be a useful reference book for executive personnel in the hospitals who oversee critical care being given by the critical care doctors working under them. This will help people involved in judicial hierarchy to understand medical aspects of litigation so as to tread their judicial understanding related to the science of critical care medicine to solve litigation to unearth truth with respect to medical critical care given by the specialized healthcare system of critical care. The emphasis is on confounding issues related to specialized healthcare system of critical care negligence where every failure and complication imitates emotionally alleged ‘negligence’, which in reality may not be negligence. The book is intended to serve the postgraduate students pursuing fellowship and DM courses in various branches of medicine, particularly the branch of critical care.