Fyre522

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1. Declaring death - a question...

   Fyre522 replied to Fyre522's topic in Critical

   6 months... has it been that long already with Jahi McMath? My heart goes out to her family. It's hard to lose someone that you love or care about, but having to face the mortality of your own child is just... something far more devastating than I ...

2. Declaring death - a question...

   Fyre522 replied to Fyre522's topic in Critical

   Mcubed45, Thank you for your response and explanation. I know there's a difference between clinical (aka cardiac/respiratory death) and brain death. Clinical, you have the possibility of being revived. With brain death though, when you're dead, yo...

3. Declaring death - a question...

   Fyre522 replied to Fyre522's topic in Critical

   Esme12 and Mcubed45, I apologize for lumping my response to you both into one reply, but I think this will sort of answer both of the questions that you have asked. Esme, I'm fairly certain that someone on a trach vent would probably not be taking an...

4. Declaring death - a question...

   Fyre522 replied to Fyre522's topic in Critical

   After the Pt. was declared, her daughter mentioned something that was overheard by one of the RPNs that had come on shift a few hours earlier about that she appreciated the staff giving her mother the morphine to help ensure that her final moments we...

5. Declaring death - a question...

   Fyre522 replied to Fyre522's topic in Critical

   No, she was not a DNR. Her power of attorney was her daughter (who was also physically disabled with RA and COPD) and was there for around the last 12 hours of the Pt's life. She did not authorize or consent to DNR for her mother, either, and was a...

6. Declaring death - a question...

   Fyre522 posted a topic in Critical

   Good afternoon! I am hoping someone can explain this to me: Pt., aged 82 years, had been hospitalized for approximately 4 months. Pacemaker implanted in 1983/1984 and had a trach put in 6 weeks prior to death. In roughly 48 hours before her death, s...