Query- If during a surgery in a govt hospital, a patient develops massive MI, surgery is abandoned and patient is shifted to ICU barely kept alive. The declaration is done in ICU by medicine team after an hour. Who is responsible in this?
Surgeon Anesthetist Internist Answer- Please note that in such a case nobody will be held responsible as it is covered by theory of Novus Actus Interveniens” “A Novus actus interveniens is "an independent event which, after the wrongdoer's act has been concluded either caused or contributed to the consequence concerned". A novus actus breaks the causal chain between the initial wrongdoer's action and the liability that is imputed to him or her as a result thereof. A requirement for an act or omission committed after the initial wrongdoer's act to constitute a novus actus is that the secondary act was not reasonably foreseeable” What are your views and…
