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| True or False: Refraining from the use of a ventilator is ok; stopping one on a still-living patient is tantamount to murder. |
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| What should be looked at primarily in making a treatment decision? |
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The benefit/burden ratio of the treatment.
PROPORTIONALITY |
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| According to the ______, appropriate high dose usage of opioids for the purpose of alleviating pain of the terminally ill is NOT euthanasia. |
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| DOCTRINE OF DOUBLE EFFECT |
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(a) The action itself is ethically good or at least neutral
(b) The agent must intend the good effects, not the bad effects
(c) The morally objectionable effect cannot be a means to the morally permissible one. |
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The physician’s intention is to relieve pain, not to compromise consciousness or risk depressing respiratory function.
This is an example of what?? |
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| DOCTRINE OF DOUBLE EFFECT |
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| Problems with Double effect (List 3) |
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1. People have multiple intentions
2. Focus on what physicians say rather than what they do
3. People are generally held accountable for consequences they forsee |
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| . True or False: Palliative sedation can be morally permissible in some cases and morally questionable (or outright wrong) in other cases. |
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| True or False: CPR is effective the majority of the time on TV. |
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TRUE.
But not in real life |
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| Statistics on CPR performed in hospitals show about a ___% rate for those who will be discharged alive from the hospital. Some of the discharged patients will suffer with lifelong ____ ____. |
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| True or False: When CPR is strictly futile, clinicians MUST still perform CPR unless a specific DNR order is in place. |
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| CPR efforts can be, with some patients, highly unlikely to succeed and may very likely bring burdensome side effects. What medical goal can be achieved by putting DNR/DNAR orders in place? |
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| preferences are unknown, the patient’s _____ _____. |
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| True or False: A DNR order indicates that all treatment of all types should stop. |
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| Why are slow (took too much time) or show (not doing everything) codes unethical? |
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| Not good for patient, not ethical, causes cynicism |
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| True or False: Tube and intravenous feedings may prolong death and/or bring great indignity to patients suffering from advanced dementia or metastatic cancer. |
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| True or False: A patient’s need for nutrition declines once she or he is in an advanced stage of dementia. |
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| Aspiration pneumonia and patient agitation are some of the _____ of tube feedings. |
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| Artificial feedings are _______ interventions |
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MEDICAL
Not considered ordinary care |
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| If a patient requests that his or her life be terminated by the physician and the physician injects lethal chemical(s) into him or her, what has taken place? ______ |
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| Active Voluntary Euthanasia |
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| Who is the direct agent of death with physician-assisted suicide? |
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| Patients have a right to be free of unwanted bodily invasions (even life-sustaining ones). Which principle of biomedical ethics most directly supports this right? |
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DOCTRINE OF DOUBLE EFFECT
(as it pertains to PAS) |
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Aggressive palliative treatment may hasten death
(but is not Euthanasia or PAS) |
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| One of the reasons against assisted suicide and active euthanasia is linked to what professional role of the physician? |
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| HEALER role(consistent with non-maleficence) |
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| True or False: Sometimes physicians confuse the act of euthanasia with that of giving high doses of medication for pain relief. |
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