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  • Title: Bartling v. Glendale Adventist Medical Center.
    Author: California. Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 5.
    Journal: Wests Calif Report; 1986 Aug 25; 229():360-7. PubMed ID: 11648171.
    Abstract:
    Affirming the Superior Court ruling, the California Court of Appeal found that a hospital's use of soft restraints and close supervision of a patient who attempted to remove ventilator tubes from his body did not constitute battery, conspiracy, or intentional infliction of emotional distress, and that it did not violate the patient's constitutional rights. The patient's right to discontinue artificial life-sustaining measures had already been recognized by the court, but the hospital declined to allow him to discontinue treatment, and no other hospital would admit the patient for that purpose. The hospital's action was found not to be so extreme as to exceed community or medical standards.
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