Ethics And Law Flashcards
Role DNA CPR
Legal order written with by hospital or legal form
Who request DNA CPR
Patients and health medical attorney
What is palliative care
Give dangerous drugs like opiate analgesics to have risky side effects
What is doctrine double effect
A-Know that drug required for pain relief
B- hopes that drug will shorten pts life’s
About good intended consequences
By Lessing pain but not to short pts life
- lethal but pain relief
When healthcare not prosecuted
Not motivated by him
Tried to stop him
Pts 100% decided to commit suicide
Who owns dead body
Only body itself before death
Coroner 
Local authorities
Who issues death certificates
By doctor or coroner
Then taken to local register office within 5 days register death
When to speak to coroner and don’t certify death
Not seen previous 14 days
Unknown death
Within 24 hr in hospital
Surgery & anesthesia
Unnatural and violent death
Alchol,drug ,poison
Industrial death
Prison or police custody
Who is coroner
Independent judicial officer
Freestanding office
Not police or civil court
Legal and bioscience qualifications and experience
Procurator fiscal in Scotland
Role their coroner
Who died and how died
Write certificate death
Not decide who committed crime»_space;> verdict may influence police ,cps,civil court
What is inquest of coroner
It not stop at them
And their inquest is useless to to and prevent future death
* useless in stopping death
