The 38-year-old man was in an induced coma and couldn't consent to medical treatment, so a tribunal had to act as his guardian.
An intensive care doctor treating the man was forced to approach a tribunal last Thursday to seek urgent approval to remove the breathing tube from his mouth and insert it through his neck instead.. He was intubated on the ship and later transferred to a public hospital onshore.
The man's condition was improving and doctors had tried to reduce his sedation, but each time he became more conscious he became distressed and tried to remove his breathing tube. She wanted to perform a percutaneous tracheostomy — the surgical insertion of a tracheostomy tube under anaesthetic — which would allow doctors to gradually wake him up and wean him from the ventilation, but the man could not consent because he was in an induced coma.
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