Clinical ethics case consultation.
Should we seek a court order to use blood products and/or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) on this critically ill child of Jehovah's Witness parents?
Orr
Robert D
RD
Ethics Fletcher Allen Health Care, University of Vermont, USA.
D001803:Blood Transfusion; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal; D033221:Jehovah's Witnesses; D033222:Judicial Role; D010290:Parents; D016312:Treatment Refusal / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*