Re C (A Minor) (Medical Treatment)

[1998] Lloyd's Rep Med 01

FAMILY DIVISION

and Sir Stephen BROWN P

Medical treatment — Minor — Consent — Parent/doctor disagreement — Application to court — Child aged 16 months suffering from spinal muscular atrophy — Intermittent positive pressure ventilation — Doctors considering that it was not in minor's best interests that she should be further ventilated, and if, when ventilation was withdrawn, it should not be reinstituted in event of further respiratory arrest — Parents believing that minor should be taken off ventilation to see whether child might survive for a time but should she suffer further respiratory relapse or arrest she should be replaced on to ventilation — Order to be granted