A 78-year-old man with advanced dementia and recurrent aspiration pneumonia is admitted to ICU. The clinical team believes ICU treatment is futile. Th...

Question

A 78-year-old man with advanced dementia and recurrent aspiration pneumonia is admitted to ICU. The clinical team believes ICU treatment is futile. The family insists on 'full escalation.' The consultant wants to issue a Treatment Escalation Plan (TEP) limiting treatment to ward-based care with antibiotics and oxygen. According to GMC guidance, whose decision is this?

Accepted Answer

The responsible clinician's - treatment decisions (including decisions not to offer treatments that are not clinically indicated) are clinical decisions, made in the patient's best interests after consulting the family

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The family's - they must consent to any treatment limitation

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The hospital CEO's

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The patient's GP

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It can only be decided by the Court of Protection

uk-fficm MCQ (SBA): Treatment Escalation Planning