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Use of living wills in intensive medicine and palliative care
Kunstýřová, Jana ; Krejčíková, Helena (advisor) ; Salač, Josef (referee)
Living will is a multidisciplinary, ethical-law problem. When applied a legally competent patient as a lay person orders the medical staff as professionals how to treat him or her in case of him/her not being able, temporarily or permanently, to give an informed permission with a treatment or alternatively refuse such treatment. A patient has a right to express his/her wishes concerning a future health care for him/her-self in a time when he/she is no longer capable to decide on his/her own. The living will is a particular kind of an informed consent or decline targeted towards a future event which is to an extent uncertain. The presented thesis consists of two parts which are additionally divided into three chapters. The major aim of the first part is to give a comprehensive explanation of the Living will's position in the legal system of the Czech Republic. This part also analyses the relation of the modification embedded in the the Act on Health Services and Conditions of Their Provision and the Civil Code. The second part consists of two chapters: "The Living will's reflection in the intensive and palliative care" and " Care limitations, the Living will and a the legal responsibility of a medical doctor". It deals with the use of the Living will in intensive medicine and palliative care. These...

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