20.500.12556/DKUM-72562 Criminal law dilemmas in withholding and withdrawal in intensive care Regarding the question under which conditions a physician in Slovenia is allowed to omit life-prolonging medical treatment of dying patients, the main legal source is the Patient Rights Act, adopted in Slovenia in 2008 (parallel to Criminal Code of Slovenia). Under this law, there are two possible circumstances in deciding about life-prolonging medical treatment regarding dying patients: a) on the basis of the so-called patient's testament in the sense of Art. 34 of the Patient Rights Act; and b) without any known patient's testament in the sense of Art. 34 of the Patient Rights Act. Such decisions can also be contrary to a decisive wish of relatives of the dying patient to prolong the patientʼs life under all circumstances. If this decision is reached with full respect of the Patient Rights Act as well as the rules of medical science, omitting life prolonging medical treatment cannot be unlawful in the sense of medical criminal law. substantive criminal law omission life prolonging medical treatment Slovenia zdravstvo kazensko pravo medicina in pravo Slovenija true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Univerza v Mariboru Znanstveno delo 2018-10-08 12:21:05 2018-10-08 12:22:04 2022-08-01 22:50:37 2019-07-11 19:22:45 2016 0 0 str. 21-39 št. 1 Letn. 9 Apr. 2016 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2463-7955 343:61(497.4) 281851136 14889297 2463-7955 URN:SI:UM:DK:NL98J2NG Medicine,_law_&_society_2016_Korosec_Criminal_law_dilemmas_in_withholding_and_withdrawal_in_intensive_care.pdf Medicine,_law_&_society_2016_Korosec_Criminal_law_dilemmas_in_withholding_and_withdrawal_in_intensive_care.pdf 1 7599EFE31997409F21E74EE66D4CAF97 be4b85a56c5a10690cae717b361789fe8efbb28502120968911987693e3a5731 72028f6b-7c10-11eb-bb7a-00155d0001ca 20.500.12556/dkum/ba10a9f4-5ff7-415d-88f0-a0df7a1a062c https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=130723 http://journals.um.si/index.php/medicine/article/view/8 1 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=130722 Pravna fakulteta Medicine, law & society 0 0 0