The Top Health Care News Story of 2009: The Economy on Life Support, Health Care in Transition

2010 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Jacob Molyneux
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Life Support ◽  
News Story ◽  
Care News

The Top Health Care News Story of 2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-13
Author(s):  
Jacob Molyneux
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
News Story ◽  
Care News

Distinguishing between Assisting and Substituting for Vital Organs

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Alfred Cioffi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Vital Organ ◽  
Vital Function ◽  
Know How ◽  
Futile Care ◽  
Extraordinary Means

When patients approach the end of life, their loved ones often do not know how much treatment is too much and struggle to decide when to stop intervening and allow them to die in peace. Conversely, health care professionals may tend to prescribe extraordinary means of life support, sometimes simply because of legal and fiscal concerns or a family’s request for futile care. It can be useful to refer to the general bioethical principle that, typically, there is no moral obligation to provide a substitute for vital organs. In this context, providing a substitute for a vital organ means wholly replacing the vital function of the dying organ by means of either a transplant or medical machinery. This article seeks to explain how this rule may be applied when a patient and his family are deciding at what point to stop treatment and allow the patient to die in peace.

Basic life support training for health care students

Resuscitation ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin D Perkins ◽  
Jonathan Hulme ◽  
Hannah R Shore ◽  
Julian F Bion
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Basic Life Support ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Health Care Students
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