Forensic Aspect of Mechanical Ventilation in Intensive Care Unit

Facing a medicolegal problem while serving in a govt. or semi govt. or private hospital has become a headache for medical professionals. It may be in the form of civil or criminal or corporate or composite negligence. Problems arising from treatment in intensive care unit are a recent edition in this regard. Death of a patient in ICU, organ transplantation from a beating heart donor may bring charge of negligence against the doctor, nurse, hospital staffs and authority. Here we have tried to focus on this aspect medicolegal disputes and the way to overcome these problems in short.