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Inside the Ethics Committee

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Joan Bakewell and a panel of experts wrestle with the ethics of a real-life medical case.

Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to wrestle with the ethics arising from a real-life medical case.

Inside the Ethics Committee: Series 7

Inside the Ethics Committee: Series 7: Episode 1: Unconscious and Pregnant

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Episode 1: Unconscious and Pregnant

Series 7

Unconscious and Pregnant

BBC Radio 4 - Inside the Ethics Committee, Series 7, Unconscious and Pregnant

How do you make medical decisions about an unconscious woman when she is pregnant?

Anne is unconscious in intensive care and pregnant. As her life hangs in the balance, how much should her pregnancy influence the decisions the medical team need to make about her?

Anne is brought into Accident and Emergency unconscious, having suffered a cardiac arrest. She is thirty five years old and pregnant.

Within hours of Anne's admission to intensive care, she has another cardiac arrest and starts to have seizures. On several occasions over the next few days, the medical team think they might lose her. But each time she survives.

As Anne's life hangs in the balance, how much should her pregnancy influence the decisions the medical team need to make about Anne?

Producer Beth Eastwood

Presenter Joan Bakewell.

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