@Article{Kocańda2019,
journal="Medical Studies/Studia Medyczne",
issn="1899-1874",
volume="35",
number="3",
year="2019",
title="Can a drunk patient give informed consent for medical treatment?",
abstract="When medical intervention is necessary, a physician faces a serious dilemma: can he/she perform medical intervention despite the lack of informed consent, or should he/she withdraw from such an intervention? The question is even more difficult when a patient under the influence of alcohol urgently requires a medical intervention. In such cases the possibility to gain informed consent is even more problematic, and such situations are not so rare. In such situations, a doctor must often decide whether to undertake medical interventions despite the lack of informed consent of a patient, if it is justified by patient’s state of health, or to discontinue intervention, exposing him/herself to possible legal liability for such an omission.",
author="Kocańda, Kamila
and Głuszek, Stanisław",
pages="243--245",
doi="10.5114/ms.2019.88424",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ms.2019.88424"
}