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The following are characteristics of what?
- extensive brain damage
- unconscious, no purposeful activity
- wakefulness, cycles of sleeping and waking
- may open and move eyes, blink, move face, grimace, smile, yawn, and produce tears
- breathing and circulation function normally |
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| PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE (PVS) |
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| Patients in a vegetative state have no ________ function, but have preserved brainstem function |
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| How long after the brain injury can we determine with a high degree of confidence the irreversibility of the patient’s vegetative state? |
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ANOXIC = 3 MO
TRAUMATIC = 12 MO |
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| ________ is a condition of those who have brain injury but progress to show some awareness of self and environment (e.g., respond to simple questions, show purposeful behavior, etc.) |
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| MINIMALLY CONCIOUS STATE (MCS) |
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| SOME doubt the _______of the patient in a PVS. |
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| True or False: Controversies over PVS are solely over technical/medical issues and do NOT pertain to personal, religious, transcendent or philosophical beliefs. |
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| Be _______ in your communication with family members about these conditions in order to avoid confusion. |
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PRECISE
(consistent and accurate) |
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| True or False: Someone is determined to be dead when their cortex has irreversibly stopped functioning. |
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| cortex and brainstem death = whole brain death = DEATH |
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| Some Orthodox Jews, Native Americans and Japanese _____ the concept of brain death. |
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| Which Act gives us a definition of death? |
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| UNIFORM DETERMINATION OF DEATH ACT (UDDA) |
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| True or False: The physician needs to get permission from the family in order to declare someone dead. |
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| The Karen Quinlan case reinforces which right? |
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RIGHT TO DECLINE OR WITHHOLD TREATMENT
***** |
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| The Karen Quinlan case motivated the development of hospital _____ _______. |
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| With the Nancy Cruzan case, the Missouri Supreme Court was looking for a ______________ statement about the patient’s desires for treatment/non-treatment. |
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| With the Nancy Cruzan case, the _______ supported the right of each state to establish safeguards for incompetent patients. They also acknowledged that administered nutrition and hydration is a _______ intervention that can be removed at the patient’s request/desire. |
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| The Nancy Cruzan case resulted in: 1. The increase in state legislation regarding advance directives. 2. The emplacement (December 1991) of the ________________ Act |
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| PATIENT SELF DETERMINATION ACT (PSDA) |
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| True or False: The US Supreme Court declared PAS (Physician Assisted Suicide) to be a fundamental and constitutional right. |
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| The Terri Schiavo case originated in which state? |
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| How long had Terri been in a vegetative state by the time the removal of medically administered nutrition and hydration had been authorized? |
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| The Terri Schiavo case highlighted the importance of _____________ __________. |
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| Our pluralistic/diverse society tries to respect the various viewpoints of people as much as is possible. Much importance is placed upon patient ___________. _________ is not a one way street. Healthcare providers are not machines, but persons who also deserve respect and protection. |
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| The Right of ________ protects people from participating in unethical actions. |
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| Termination of the doctor-patient relationship is a(n)_________ ________. |
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| Patient has the right to be Free from _______ ________. |
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