What if the family members of the critically ill notice refuse to sign it?

Critical illness is critical illness, which is an objective law that is independent of human will. If the family members don't sign, it means that the family members refuse to rescue or use expensive equipment in the ambulance ward, and they don't intend to pay the expenses incurred. Then doctors can not give patients rescue equipment or expensive drugs, but just take general routine humanitarian maintenance measures. In addition, once the patient dies, the hospital does not assume the responsibility of not notifying the family members to meet in time.

Legal analysis

Critical notification, notification is valid. Critical notice is a specific notice issued by the hospital to the relatives of critically ill patients when their condition deteriorates sharply and threatens their lives. The Ministry of Health does not clearly stipulate how to issue a notice of critical illness, but any professional doctor can issue a notice of critical illness according to the change or deterioration of a patient's condition, which is the right conferred by his qualifications. Critical notice refers to a medical document signed by the patient when the patient's condition is critical or serious, which is informed by the attending doctor or the doctor on duty to the patient's family. The contents include patient's name, gender, age, subjects, current diagnosis and critical condition, patient's signature, doctor's signature and date. In duplicate, one for the patient and one for the medical record. The patient's condition is dangerous and he is at risk of ending his life at any time. After the doctor's advice tells him that he is critically ill, the competent physician should issue a notice of critical illness in time, write a rescue record in time in the medical record, and ask the general practitioner to discuss the critical illness; The severity of illness refers to the aggravation of illness. The current level of treatment technology is difficult to cure, and it may deteriorate at any time. Although it will not endanger life immediately, it will continue to develop. Doctors need to issue a notice of serious illness in time to explain the illness to their families and let them know the current situation.

legal ground

Article 20 of the Basic Medical Care and Health Promotion Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) establishes an infectious disease prevention and control system, formulates an infectious disease prevention and control plan and organizes its implementation, strengthens the monitoring and early warning of infectious diseases, adheres to prevention first, combines prevention and control, joint prevention and control, group prevention and control, source prevention and control, comprehensive management, blocking transmission routes, protecting susceptible people and reducing the harm of infectious diseases. Any organization or individual shall accept and cooperate with medical and health institutions to take measures such as investigation, inspection, sample collection, isolation treatment and medical observation according to law to prevent, control and eliminate the harm of infectious diseases.