[The law number 2005-370 of April 22, 2005 concerning the patients' rights at the end of life: a case of prehospital medicine].
Annales francaises d'anesthesie et de reanimation · 2008-11-01 · Case report
Abstract
The law number 2005-370 of April 22, 2005 concerning the patients' rights at the end of life imposes from now the refusal of futility of care, a shared decision-making in unconscious patients and the duty of a palliative strategy. Our observation underlines the feasibility to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatments in prehospital area, in following the different steps of the legal decision-making process. However, this case also shows the major difficulty to decide, because of a lack of traceability. Finally, this case illustrates the current difficulty to identify or to join the consultant, provided by the law.