by APFLI | Nov 17, 2008 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
ORGAN DONATION — Vague Criterion of "Brain Death" has Blinded Potential Donors to the fact that their organs are often harvested while they are still alive Shock: Oxford Neonatologist Says Time Has Come to Consider “Mandatory Organ...
by APFLI | Feb 15, 2008 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
France's supreme court has ruled that parents of miscarried or stillborn children can register a name for the child, no matter what stage of development the child was at at the time of miscarriage or birth, reports the AFP. Previous to this most recent ruling,...
by APFLI | Nov 19, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Widespread Use of Cold Air In Breathing Tubes May Prevent Recovery of Brain Injured Patients The odds of recovery from brain injuries and vegetative states may be dramatically improved simply by restoring normal brain temperatures, according to a new medical...
by APFLI | Sep 30, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
The Inconvenient Truth About Organ Donations Truthfulness in transplantation: non-heart-beating organ donation: Commentary Abstract The Inconvenient Truth About Organ Donations: Physician sounds alarm about unethical or at least highly questionable practices of...
by APFLI | Jul 29, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Commentary: Know Your POLST By Karen Ward, RN POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment), also called POST (Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment) and MOST (Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment), is incrementally making its way across the U.S....
by APFLI | May 26, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
The federal government is undertaking the most ambitious set of studies ever mounted under a controversial arrangement that allows researchers to conduct some kinds of medical experiments without first getting patients’ permission. The $50 million, five-year...
by APFLI | Apr 16, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
A new study finds that, when cancer patients are given appropriate doses of morphine to relieve severe pain, the treatment doesn't lead to the shortening of their lives. The finding is an important refutation of the argument euthanasia proponents make that pain...
by APFLI | Apr 16, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
1. Palliative Care and Organ Donation http://www.pallimed.org/2006/03/terminal-patients-in-icu-and-organ.html Monday, March 20, 2006 Terminal patients in the ICU and organ donation In my job as a palliative medicine doctor, I am frequently talking with patients and...
by APFLI | Apr 1, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
NEW TREND IN ORGAN DONATION RAISES QUESTIONS: As Alternative Approach Becomes More Frequent, Doctors Worry That It Puts Donors at Risk. The number of kidneys, livers and other body parts surgeons are harvesting through a controversial approach to organ donation has...
by APFLI | Mar 17, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Also See… The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert J. Lifton http://www.holocaust-history.org/lifton/contents.shtml (entire book available online) THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE VOLUME...
by APFLI | Mar 17, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Maryland Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 1991 …Following World War II, as the horrors of the Nazi euthanasia program and the Holocaust became undeniable, the Euthanasia Society of America made little progress and, indeed, was essentially quiescent until...
by APFLI | Feb 10, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
In Alabama, there are at least 140 hospice groups. With this many, when you consider all hospitals, nursing homes, and other medical facilities, it must be difficult to find enough well-qualified medical personnel. It is also extremely difficult for the state...
by APFLI | Feb 10, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
By J.C. Willke, MD People Magazine, December 11, 2006, published a very compassionate article on the issue of birth certificates for stillborns. In this magazine, not particularly known for any pro-life tendency, this article is almost a tearjerker and deliberately,...
by APFLI | Feb 1, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
From correspondents in Ottawa, China’s military is harvesting organs from unwilling live prison inmates, mostly Falungong practitioners, for transplants on a large scale – including to foreign recipients- according to a study. The report’s authors...
by APFLI | Jan 14, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
COMPUTERIZED BRAIN CONNECTIONS SHOW BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE IN ALS PATIENTS Research, recently published in the journal Psychophysiology, sheds new light on the condition known as the completely locked-in state (CLIS), a state where the patient’s total lack of...
by APFLI | Sep 5, 2006 | Human Development, Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
London-based researchers, working with medical teams in New York and Budapest, have developed a technique for providing a transplanted womb with a reliable blood supply. Women born without a uterus or who have undergone an emergency hysterectomy would be among those...
by APFLI | Sep 1, 2006 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Case study and literature review. Background: Tracheal intubations of comatose patients are common, but contrary to most standards for respiratory care, heated nebulizers are not always used. This deviation from recommendations appears to be widespread. Case Report:...
by APFLI | Feb 24, 2006 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Interview with John B. Shea, M.D. Dr. Shea states that ethical heart transplant is not yet possible because of difficulty of determining certain death With the Ontario Legislature entertaining a private members bill to institute presumed consent on organ...
by APFLI | Dec 5, 2005 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
By Short-Circuiting Pain Signals, These Drugs Are Poised To Curb The Silent Epidemic That Affects Tens Of Millions. On April 29, 1997, the supermarket tabloid the National Examiner ran this headline on its cover: "Miracle Pain Cure: Deadly Snail Venom." The...
by APFLI | Dec 5, 2005 | Right to Life - Archive, Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu admitted that the practice of selling the organs of executed prisoners to foreign transplant recipients is common, while promising to change the policy. “We want to push for regulations on organ transplants to standardise the...