Anaes SAQs · Ethics, consent & medicolegal
The informed consent
Primary — the three elements (the capacity, the disclosure, the voluntariness); the Montgomery material-risk standard (the common and the serious that the reasonable person would want to know); the signed form as the documentation, the not the consent; the consent as the process.
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Describe the requirements for a valid informed consent for the anaesthetic, including the capacity, the disclosure, and the voluntariness.
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Describe the requirements for a valid informed consent for the anaesthetic, including the capacity, the disclosure, and the voluntariness.
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- [1]Taylor BES, et al. Ethical and medicolegal aspects in the management of neurosurgical emergencies. Clin Neurol Neurosurg, 2020.PMID 32222653
- [32222654]Bersten AD, Soni N (eds) Oh's Intensive Care Manual. 8th edition, Elsevier, 2018.