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To cut or not to cut: medicolegal responsibility of the physician in a patient scheduled for below knee amputation without consent

Schneiden oder nicht schneiden: medizinische Verantwortung des Arztes bei einer Patientin mit geplanter Amputation unterhalb des Knies ohne Einwilligung

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  1. Department of Anesthesia and Reanimation, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Medical Faculty, Rize, Turkey, Zihni Derin Yerleskesi, 53100

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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants or on human tissue were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1975 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from the participant’ relatives.

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This article was translated. The German Version of this article can be found under https://doi.org/10.1007/s00101-022-01227-3.

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The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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Koyuncu, T. To cut or not to cut: medicolegal responsibility of the physician in a patient scheduled for below knee amputation without consent. Anaesthesiologie 72 (Suppl 1), 25–27 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00101-022-01178-9

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