Considerazioni a margine del “caso Piludu” fra princìpi costituzionali e pronunce giurisprudenziali in materia di rifiuto di trattamenti sanitari salvavita

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  • Federico Gustavo Pizzetti

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15168/2284-4503-221

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End-of-life decision-making, Principle of autonomy, Refusal of medical treatments, Advance directives, Guardianship

Abstract

The article analyzes, under the point of view of the previous case-law, the recent assessment of the Cagliari Guardianship Court in a lawsuit concerning the petition of a patient, suffering from ALS, to stop life-prolonging treatment. In particular, the article firstly examines the right to give informed and actual refusal to a treatment side-by-side to the right to care planning future therapies for a situation of sudden incompetency (living wills), and then evaluates the necessity of an authorization by the guardianship court in order to stop the life-saving treatments on request of competent patients.

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2017-02-28

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Pizzetti FG. Considerazioni a margine del “caso Piludu” fra princìpi costituzionali e pronunce giurisprudenziali in materia di rifiuto di trattamenti sanitari salvavita. BioLaw [Internet]. 28 febbraio 2017 [citato 3 dicembre 2024];(1):219-31. Available at: https://teseo.unitn.it/biolaw/article/view/1231

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