Healthcare Provider Limitation of Life-Sustaining Treatment without Patient or Surrogate Consent.

The article discusses the ethical and legal aspects of decisions by healthcare providers to limit the provision of life-sustaining medical treatments without consent from patients or medical surrogates, and it mentions the joint guidelines issued by critical care societies in North America and Europe. American medical ethics and the Texas Advance Directives Act are addressed, along with U.S. informed consent laws and medical law cases such as Bryan v. Rectors of the University of Virginia.