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In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...
Berlusconi stated that she had died at 19:35 (UTC+1) on 9 February 2009. An autopsy in the private nursing facility certified that her death was caused by the withholding of nutrition. [7] It also revealed that Eluana's brain had been irreparably damaged and compromised, showing diffuse axonal injury. In addition, her lungs showed signs of ...
The Case of Terri Schiavo: Ethics at the End of Life. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-59102-398-2. Silent Witness: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo's Death by Mark Fuhrman (2005), ISBN 0-06-085337-9; Fighting for Dear Life: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo and What It Means for All of Us by David C. Gibbs III (2006), ISBN 0-7642-0243-X
Another type of life support that presents ethical arguments is the placement of a feeding tube. Decisions about hydration and nutrition are generally the most ethically challenging when it comes to end-of-life care. In 1990, the US Supreme Court ruled that artificial nutrition and hydration are not different from other life-supporting ...
Meet the Experts: Umo Callins, RD, CPT, is a sports performance dietitian from Well Rooted Health and Nutrition in Oklahoma City. Jennifer McDaniel , RD, is a registered dietitian and the owner of ...
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services may seek over $1 billion from Johnson & Johnson as reimbursement for federal health agencies' payments of medical costs for patients who allege that ...
End-of-life care (EOLC) is health care provided in the time leading up to a person's death.End-of-life care can be provided in the hours, days, or months before a person dies and encompasses care and support for a person's mental and emotional needs, physical comfort, spiritual needs, and practical tasks.
Relationship Weight Gain: 6 Reasons It Happens (& 6 Possible Solutions) This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. You gain a lot of things when you get into a new ...