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Friday, 26 August 2005 10:37 | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk
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The Court of Appeal yesterday rejected a plea by the parents of a terminally-ill baby, Charlotte Wyatt, to force doctors to resuscitate her should she stop breathing.
However, the family are still hopeful that the decision can be reversed after the judges ordered an urgent review of her medical condition because of her “astonishing” improvement over the past year.
A court ruled last October that Doctors from St Mary’s hospital in Portsmouth should not have to resuscitate Charlotte, who is blind, deaf and severely disabled, if she suffered from respiratory failure.
That decision was upheld by the high court in March. Yesterday’s appeal argued that the judge had not taken Charlotte’s improving health into account.
Speaking after the ruling, Lords Justice Laws, Wall and Lloyd said the previous decision should stand but added: “We attach high importance to the up-to-date position being properly investigated with a view to deciding if the declaration should continue.”
A year ago Charlotte lived most of her life in an oxygen box but she now spends several hours a day with just a nasal tube. It is expected that she will be allowed to go home should her condition continue to improve.
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