Legal Protection for Doctors Against Medical Actions in Emergency Situation for Reasons of Informed Consent
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- 10.2991/978-2-38476-180-7_19How to use a DOI?
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- Please Legal Protection; Doctor; Medical Treatment; Informed Consent
- Abstract
In an emergency, doctors must act quickly, precisely and with quality to help patiens in order to save their lives from death or disability. The study aims to analyze informed consent in an emergency and legal protection for doctors who perform medical procedures in emergencies and who do not provide medical information after the medial action has been carried out based the Agreement and Health Law. From the results of this study, it was found that the patient must sign the informed consent given before the medical action is carried out. However, after the medical action is carried out, the doctor is required to provide information regarding the action taken on the patient based on Article 4 PERMENKES Number 290/MENKES/PER/III/2008 concerning Approval of Medical Treatment and Article 17 KODEKI. In addition, doctors get legal protection related to medical action in emergencies based on Law Number 29 of 2004 concerning Medical Practice as long as the doctor carried out his dutied in accordance with applicable professional standard operating procedures. In this case, if the doctor performs a medical action in an emergency that is not accordance with applicable professional standard operating procedures, such as not providing information on actions taken after the patient is conscious or a patiens family arrives, the doctor is personaly responsible, but if the doctor works at hone if the hospital is based on the theory of central responsibility or centralized responsibility by the hospital, then the hospital is responsible.
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TY - CONF AU - Anggraeni Endah Kusumaningrum AU - Cindy Rachmadewi Ariyanto PY - 2023 DA - 2023/12/31 TI - Legal Protection for Doctors Against Medical Actions in Emergency Situation for Reasons of Informed Consent BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on “Changing of Law: Business Law, Local Wisdom and Tourism Industry” (ICCLB 2023) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 160 EP - 173 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-180-7_19 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-180-7_19 ID - Kusumaningrum2023 ER -