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This is a personal view about the recent high court decision around cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). This opinion identifies that the judge failed to recognise the statutory role given to clinicians in identifying when a treatment is life sustaining. In failing to recognise the role of the clinician, the ruling in Winspear risks the likelihood of inappropriate CPR attempts.
- Capacity
- Legal Aspects
- Decision-making
- End-of-life
- Ethics
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Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
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