Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

Biswas Sujash ¹, Bandyopadhyay Chandan ¹, Das Abhishek ¹, Dalal Deepsekhar ¹, Bhattacharya Chittaranjan ¹, Chakraborty Prabhas Chandra ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Forensic and State Medicine, Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN

Abstract

Facing a medicolegal problem while serving in a govt. or semi govt. or private hospital has become a headache for medical professionals. It may be in the form of civil or criminal or corporate or composite negligence. Problems arising from treatment in intensive care unit are a recent edition in this regard. Death of a patient in ICU, organ transplantation from a beating heart donor may bring charge of negligence against the doctor, nurse, hospital staffs and authority. Here we have tried to focus on this aspect medicolegal disputes and the way to overcome these problems in short.

Keywords

Medicolegal, Negligence, Organ Transplantation, Intensive Care Unit

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