Legal Issues in Critical Care

ISBN: 9789390709137

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This book 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.

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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.

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Publisher	CBS Publishers & Distributors
Binding	Paperback
Size	8.5X11
Year	2022
Edition	1st Edition
Pages	440
Author	Baldwa, Mahesh et al
About the Author	Mahesh Baldwa MBBS,MD (Pediatrics),DCH, LLB, LLM,PhD (Law),MBA,FIAP is senior medicolegal advisor and senior consultant paediatrician at Baldwa Hospital,Mumbai; ex-Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, TN Medical College and Nair Hospital, Mumbai; ex-Assistant Professor, JJ Hospital, Grant Medical College, Mumbai; ex-visiting professor, paper setter and examiner, Department of Law, University of Mumbai.He is the author of various titles on legal issues concerning the medical fraternit Varsha Baldwa MBBS,MD has worked at St John of God Geelong Hospital,Victoria, Australia; formerly Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai; GMC, Surat; and GMC, Kota. She has authored several books and written a number of articles in scientific medical journals.She is the winner of the prestigious STS award of ICMR Namita Padvi MBBS,MD,DNB,Fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology has worked at Emirates Hospital, Dubai, and is ex-Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai. She has authored of several books, written a number of articles in scientific medical journals. Sushila Baldwa MBBS,MD,DGO is Consulting Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Baldwa Hospital and Apollo Clinic, Nakoda Foundation, Mumbai, and has been on the faculty of BJ Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital, Pune. She has authored of several books and written a number of articles in scientific medical journals.