by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Comment: The basic principles are sound for anyone. N. Valko RN 2nd Comment, 2nd Nurse: Unless the donor is alive and can live with one organ (kidney for instance), and the transplant will not kill the donor, it is morally and ethically in question. Back in my 20s we...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
A teenage girl who had been stuck in a coma after a catastrophic car crash miraculously woke up just as doctors were about to declare her brain dead and harvest her organs. A teenage girl who had been stuck in a coma after a catastrophic car crash miraculously woke up...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Comment: Note that some of these radical organ donation proposals are already happening in the US, according to this article. N Valko RN A BMA report has revived the debate about how far doctors should go to help save the lives of patients with organ failure. Patients...
by APFLI | May 10, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Most people who sign organ donor cards assume that they will be carefully diagnosed as “brain dead” before their organs are donated. That was generally true years ago, but a new non-brain death organ donation procedure was developed in the 1990s even...
by APFLI | Jan 7, 2014 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED, Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
We have written dozens of stories the common theme of which is that patients diagnosed in a “persistent vegetative state” or “minimally conscious” are either (a) misdiagnosed or (b) much more aware than they are given credit for....
