The Subjectivity of Attitudes Toward Life Support Care

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 1166
Author(s):  
Jieun Choi ◽  
Yun Jung ◽  
Boon Han Kim ◽  
Hye Won Jeon ◽  
Yoon Sook Kim
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Ann Diggs ◽  
Manasi Sheth-Chandra ◽  
Gianluca De Leo

BMJ ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 304 (6839) ◽  
pp. 1444-1445
Author(s):  
W. F. De Mello ◽  
J. Restall

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Esther de Souza Lopes Palagar ◽  
Katrine de Souza Guimarães ◽  
Gabriela Motta Vasconcelos ◽  
Karla Duarte Barreto Xavier ◽  
Luciano Matos Chicayban

Pediatric patients or newborns admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) receive life support care due to various conditions and pathologies. The physiotherapist controls and applies medicinal gases, institutes and monitors invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation, as well as performs weaning, among others. Learning ventilatory management must be appropriate for the age and, therefore, consider different lungs for the proper simulations of compliance and resistance. Although the insertion of physical therapists is relatively recent, there are several postgraduate courses and training in this area. The creation of a mechanical lungthat covers, separately, neonatal and pediatric patients will be a fundamental tool for the learning and training of future professionals who will work in the area. To develop two neonatal and pediatric mechanical lungs, as well as to simulate different elastic and resistive behaviors inherent in clinical practice. Experimental study, bench, divided into two stages: creation of mechanical lungs and evaluation of mechanical characteristics. The lungs will be made on a two-story metallic base: on the upper floor, the pediatric lung and the lower floor, the neonatal. In the second stage, the mechanical lung will be connected to a mechanical ventilator, using its own ventilatory parameters used in both types of patients. For the neonatal, respiratory rate of 35rpm, inspiratory time of 0.45 and endotracheal tube of 3.0 mm. The pediatric lung will be ventilated with a volume between 100-120mL, 20-25 compliance and a 4.5mm orotracheal tube. The construction of the neonatal and pediatric mechanical lung will strongly add the teaching of the Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Physical Therapy specialty in the Undergraduate and Graduate settings, adding value to the teaching and training of professionals.


2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromi Fukuda ◽  
Takamichi Ichinose ◽  
Tomoko Kusama ◽  
Atsuko Yoshidome ◽  
Kazuyo Anndow ◽  
...  

Cytokines such as angiogenin (ANG) and interleukin (IL-8) have been shown to be related to depressive symptoms and inflammatory diseases like coronary heart disease. They may thus be used as stress biomarkers to identify and prevent health problems. To investigate the relationship between cytokines and nurses' job-related stress, levels of urinary ANG and IL-8 were measured in healthy female hospital nurses in Japan. The level of job-related stress of the subjects was evaluated using the Nursing Stress Scale (NSS), with the participants being classified into high- or low-stress groups for each subscale according to their scores. The participants' subjective psychological states were assessed using the Profile of Mood States—Short Form Japanese version (POMS-SFJ). Urinary ANG, IL-8, and cortisol levels and subjective psychological states for two groups were compared for each NSS subscale. The fatigue and depression scores of POMS-SFJ subscales in the present study were higher than those of the general healthy Japanese population. Based on the mean score of the combined participants, nurses were experiencing the highest stress related to the pressure of having responsibility for patients' life support care (PPLC). Nurses reporting high levels of stress related to PPLC and conflict with physicians had high levels of urinary ANG. Urinary ANG levels may thus be associated with high levels of job stress.


2004 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara de Araújo Torreão ◽  
Crésio Romeu Pereira ◽  
Eduardo Troster

OBJECTIVE: To identify the prevalence of management plans and decision-making processes for terminal care patients in pediatric intensive care units. METHODOLOGY: Evidence-based medicine was done by a systematic review using an electronic data base (LILACS, 1982 through 2000) and (MEDLINE, 1966 through 2000). The key words used are listed and age limits (0 to 18 years) were used. RESULTS: One hundred and eighty two articles were found and after selection according to the exclusion/inclusion criteria and objectives 17 relevant papers were identified. The most common decisions found were do-not-resuscitation orders and withdrawal or withholding life support care. The justifications for these were "imminent death" and "unsatisfatory quality of life". CONCLUSION: Care management was based on ethical principles aiming at improving benefits, avoiding harm, and when possible, respecting the autonomy of the terminally ill patient.


2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianfranco Iadecola

Lo scritto intende sottolineare la difficile problematicità, dal punto di vista legale, del tema del rifiuto di cure salvavita da parte del paziente e del rilievo che una tale volontà (sempre che libera e cosciente) ha per il medico. In tale prospettiva, si dà conto di come, nella questione, interferiscano (ed entrino in contrasto) due interessi fondamentali, entrambi protetti dall’ordinamento, ossia quello della libertà morale della persona e quello della vita, osservandosi come siffatta situazione conflittuale si tragga proprio (anche) dal recente provvedimento giudiziale sulla vicenda “Welby”. Il tribunale di Roma, infatti, dopo aver ampiamente evidenziato la univoca protezione garantita dall’ordinamento giuridico alla libertà di autodeterminazione del malato, non può non registrare la indiscutibile ed assoluta tutela assicurata al bene della vita, in sostanza individuando in essa l’adempimento al riconoscimento della vincolatività, per il medico, di una volontà di cessazione delle cure idonee al mantenimento in vita, espressa dal paziente. Si osserva come, nella prima (reale) disamina specifica del problema (dei limiti di rilevanza della volontà del malato rispetto alla posizione di garanzia del medico) da parte di un giudice nazionale, venga condivisa – di contro alle opinioni dominanti nel dibattito dottrinale – la posizione secondo cui la indisponibilità del bene fondamentale della vita si ponga, anche allo stato normativo attuale, come limite al riconoscimento – del rifiuto consapevole di cure mediche salvavita – quale situazione giuridica soggettiva tutelata, sempre e comunque, dall’ordinamento. ---------- The writing intends to underline the difficult problematic nature, under the legal point of view, of life support care refusal matter by the patient and of the relief that such a will (provided that be free and conscious) has for the physician. In such perspective, it gives an account of how, in the matter, interfere (and enter contrast) two fundamental interests, both protected by the order, i.e. that of person’s moral freedom and that of life and it explains as such conflictual situation concerns really (also) about the recent judicial provision on the “Welby” case. The court of Rome, in fact, later have widely highlighted the univocal protection ensured by the legal system to the patient self-determination freedom, has to take into account the indisputable and absolute tutelage assured to the good life, basically identifying the fulfilment to the recognition of bond, for the physician, of a will of cessation of the cares suitable to the maintenance in life, expressed by the patient. One observes as, in the first (real) close examination of the problem (of the limits of importance of the will of the patient compared to the guarantee position of the doctor) by a national judge, is shared - against to the opinions ruling in the doctrinal debate, the position according to which the unavailability of the fundamental life good places, also according to the current normative state, as limit to the recognition - of the refusal aware of sustaining-life treatments - as subjective juridical situation protected, always and anyway, by the order.


Author(s):  
Matthew D. Gardiner ◽  
Neil R. Borley

This chapter begins by discussing the basic principles of Advanced Trauma Life Support, care of the critically ill surgical patient, shock, SIRS and sepsis, and blood products and transfusion, before focusing on the key areas of knowledge, namely traumatic head injury, spine and spinal cord trauma, maxillofacial trauma, cardiothoracic trauma, abdominal trauma, urological trauma, vascular trauma, assessment of the acute abdomen, acute appendicitis, acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage, lower gastrointestinal haemorrhage, gastrointestinal obstruction, gastrointestinal perforation, acute pancreatitis, and superficial sepsis. The chapter concludes with relevant case-based discussions.


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