In Re Estate of Dorone

SPAETH, President Judge:

This is an appeal from two orders of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County appointing a temporary guardian to consent to blood transfusions as necessary during emergency surgery on appellants’ son, who was a patient at The Lehigh Valley Hospital Center and was unconscious as the result of an automobile accident. Appellants’ son was a Jehovah’s Witness and had purportedly signed a medical alert card to the effect that for religious reasons he did not wish to be given blood transfusions. Appellants argue that the court should have appointed them as temporary…