View source for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust v JF (2018) EWCOP 32

{{Case
|NCN=[2018] EWCOP 32
|Essex=E90-08
|Date=2018/07/20
|Sentence=Tracheostomy tube, escalation, morphine
|Subject=Medical treatment cases
|Court=Court of Protection
|Judges=Cohen
|Parties=Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, JF, CH
|Summary="... N suffered a cardiac arrest in the taxi as she was arriving at Leeds General Infirmary and as a result for some 20 minutes or so ceased breathing and suffered a severe hypoxic injury.  In consequence she has suffered a very significant and severe brain injury. The position now and since then has remained that she is essentially unconscious. ... The issues before me have been threefold.  First, whether or not the tracheostomy tube should be removed. ... The second issue has rather retreated in significance.  I have to consider whether or not N should receive an escalation of invasive care or treatment, in particular vasoactive drugs, renal replacement therapy, ventilation treatment that requires central venous action or CPR. ... That brings me on to morphine, and that is a difficult issue."
|News=No
|RSS pubdate=2019/2/13 11:49:21 PM
}}