Life support
Guide
life-sustaining treatment (health and care LPA only)
You have two options:
option A – I give my attorneys authority to give or refuse consent to life-sustaining treatment on my behalf
option B – I do not give my attorneys authority to give or refuse consent to life-sustaining treatment on my behalf.
Life-sustaining treatment: definition
‘Life-sustaining treatment’ means care, surgery, medicine or other help from doctors that’s needed to keep someone alive.
Life-sustaining treatment can include: • a serious operation, such as heart bypass surgery • chemotherapy, radiotherapy or another cancer treatment • an organ transplant • artificial nutrition or hydration (food or water given other than by mouth)
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