A 70-year-old man who developed cardiac arrest secondary to hyperkalemia that complicated severe chronic renal failure due to obstructive uropathy. The patient experienced electromechanical dissociation and approximately 26 minutes of asystole after which the resuscitation was suspended. However, 8 to 10 minutes after declaration of death, the patient was noted to have...
Hospice care does by no means imply 'hastening' of a person's death... Hospice just means making one comfortable until their time comes naturally, hospice nurses don't run around with syringes full of Kevorkian drugs to 'kill' patients before it's their time....in fact, most people enter hospice care way too late and are only on hospice for a matter of days before they die, if more people understood what hospice means and how benefitial it can be, then this senseless prolonging of pain and suffering will continue to occur for people who could have expeirenced a more dignified and pain free death.
Why? Hospice doesn't provide suicide assistance or euthanasia, so I fail to understand how anyone would have reservations about it.
Besides that, if it's a specialty that we've developed because God gave us the smarts to do it, then shouldn't we use it?
I will admit that I have never understood the religious reasons for most ethical issues, let alone social ones, so maybe I am the wrong person to respond here.
Wish I could "kudos" this post more than once. Hospice is a tremendously beneficial program, that greatly improves the quality of life and dying process, when a patient is terminal.
If it's "God's will" that a patient live, due to a *miracle*, they'll live, on hospice or not on hospice. Hospice doesn't hasten or cause death.
Question for the OP....can you tell us more about this story? I know you've posted elsewhere that you are not a nurse, so how did you come by the knowledge of this story? Was it a family member, was it an article in a newspaper or magazine somewhere, etc? It is indeed miraculous, if it happened, but it just raises my eyebrows a bit....
Question for the OP....can you tell us more about this story? I know you've posted elsewhere that you are not a nurse, so how did you come by the knowledge of this story? Was it a family member, was it an article in a newspaper or magazine somewhere, etc? It is indeed miraculous, if it happened, but it just raises my eyebrows a bit....
A 70-year-old man who developed cardiac arrest secondary to hyperkalemia that complicated severe chronic renal failure due to obstructive uropathy. The patient experienced electromechanical dissociation and approximately 26 minutes of asystole after which the resuscitation was suspended. However, 8 to 10 minutes after declaration of death, the patient was noted to have developed spontaneous return of circulation as the emergency department personnel were preparing to transport him to the morgue. The patient survived and was discharged without neurologic sequelae.
have any of you ever had an experience similar to this with a pt.?
If you are going to cut, copy and paste from an an article/abstract from any publication you need to provide a referance in orginal post.
ktliz
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the human body is AMAZING!!!
i love it. :)