Essays on Life Support

The high percentage of death in intensive care unit is always attributed to the withdrawal of life support machine. In Australia, research shows that a significant proportion of deaths that occurred in the intensive care unit preceded a decision supporting the withdrawal of the life support and this is a case in many countries across the globe including Australia. Withdrawal of life support refers to the process of discontinuing critical care treatment for a patient who is terminally ill, and the decision can be made by the family, government or doctor (Way, Anthony, & Curtis, 2002). The family can make ...

The topic of euthanasia is one of the burning issues of debate all over the world for a long time with the advocates for and against the act of mercy killing coming up with their explanatory views and perspectives regarding the matter. It is beyond doubt that the ethical dilemma encompassing the act of euthanasia would make one ponder about the correctness of ending a life. However, to shed more light on the matter, one should delve deep into the concept of voluntary euthanasia, non-voluntary euthanasia as well as involuntary euthanasia so ...

In this case, there are serious ethical issues pertaining to the withdrawal of life support. The first ethical issue pertaining to this case is based on the fact that medical practitioners have a calling to sustain the health and life of patients, but this case calls for a decision that goes against these duties. The second ethical issue is that the decision to refuse medical intervention (in this case life support) and effectively end an individual’s life should rest with the individual and not anybody else. In this case, the patient has delegated the right to make this ...

General overview of services offered

A business plan in relation to the Professional Circle is a formal statement of goals, reasons and plans for successful business in offering the healthcare services. These services include advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), and Pediatric Advanced life support (PALS). Business plan focuses on goals and strategies on how the above mention services will be offered to achieve a bigger profit margin. To maintain the CPR instructors must be highly qualified and continuous education and periodic recertification are necessary. Consequently, this will win the client's trust and loyalty due to assured better services and competency from ...

Values Clarification and Ethical Legal Case Analysis

Values Clarification Values dictate the way people function both personally and professionally. In nursing practice, having clear values is essential in achieving moral competence (Jormsri et al., 2005). In completing the value clarification exercise, forty-two items were answered. Of these forty-two items, 15 responses were “mostly agree” and another 15 responses were “mostly disagree.” Six responses were “somewhat disagree”, three responses were “somewhat agree”, and the final three responses were “neutral.”

In a cluster that relates to issues raised by advanced technology, I had some agreements and disagreements. Giving extraordinary medical treatments to patients is essential, particularly when the ...

There is a lot of pressure in today’s organizations. Identification of a few of these pressures includes globalization, technology changes, competition, alliances, changes in organizational structure, methodologies of work assignments, employee priorities, capabilities, abilities and demographic factors. These factors call for the Human Resource function to help navigate the company during the transition in the organizations and the same function, finding ways of propelling the organization forward even further. The real plus the perceived value of the HR function will have to be upgraded. The HR function has been shifting from the personnel aspect to that of Human ...

Information Paper on TC 8-800 Medical Education and Demonstration

1. Purpose: To explain medical education and demonstration of individual competence. 2. Facts:

The Soldier Medic has the mission to offer the necessary medical treatment to the combat soldier.

The Soldier Medic should be prepared to save lives of those in combat, especially when they are on the battlefield. Hence, the Soldier Medic must validate their skills every year.

Certification in Biennial Emergency Medical Technician with a basic recertification consistent with AR 40-68

Certification in Basic Life Support The Soldier Medic’s main mission is to render casualty care including patient assessment, basic life support, fracture management, hemorrhage control, and shock prevention and treatment.

The Soldier Medic’s core skills include airway management, trauma management, and morphine administration.

Soldiers who are MOS qualified are those who completed their 68W10 Health Care Specialist Course and received a certification in NREMT-B. These soldiers require no ...

PHIL 434 Medical Ethics

Short answers 3 point seach What is medical tourism? Medical tourism is “where patients travel overseas for operations and various invasive therapies.” (Connell 2006, p. 1093).

What are 3 reasons people choose surgeries/procedures in other countries?

1. Economics – Even with health insurance, many procedures can be performed for a fraction of the cost overseas. 2. Quality of care – quality of care is increasing around the world to the near equivalent of Western countries. 3. More options- Even with health insurance, many patients find their health insurance companies limit the kinds of procedures they are able to receive.

What is the commoditization of care?

Turning health care into a commodity that is undifferentiated from other competing ...

Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia

Cardiac arrhythmias often require immediate medical care that may include resuscitation (Ray, 2004). The diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias can be challenging particularly in situations whereby the patient is asymptomatic and ECG findings are normal between symptomatic episodes (Cruickshank, 2008). Distinguishing between supraventricular and ventricular tachycardia is also a challenge (Australian Resuscitation Council, 2008). Cardiac arrhythmia should be suspected in patients with a history of syncope, near syncope, palpitations, and/or chest pain (Cruickshank, 2008). This paper will justify why monomophic ventricular tachycardia is the most likely diagnosis of a male patient who collapsed abruptly and has hypotension (BP 63/38), tachycardia ( ...

Introduction

Euthanasia has always been a moral issue because it is situated on the boundary between religion and science. According to the Bible and the clergy, people must not intervene with God as He is the only rightful one to take away the lives of the people. They also imposed that people should believe in miracle, and who knows when a people in near-death might be saved (Lasley). However, reality still struck most of the time. As an observer, or as a relative, is it right to let the hopelessly sick person to continue his suffering against an incurable disease? ...

For centuries, animals have been euthanized to stop their suffering when they have become too old or injured. While the decision to put down a beloved pet may be emotionally devastating, there is no question of the ethics involved. In fact, many people would think to keep an animal lingering in pain and distress would be considered inhumane. Why, then, do we allow human beings to suffer in pain and distress? Does a human not have the right to a final relief granted to an animal? An animal does not have the ability to grant permission for self-euthanasia like ...

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Service Management

Executive Summary Service organizations face numerous challenges in an attempt to please their users. Discontentment and un-satisfaction among service users may lead to the organization in question being unpopular. Organization management differs from one organization to the other. Importantly, an organization can learn from another on how to address certain challenges. This report focuses on two service organizations in a similar industry (American Health Organization and American Red Cross), in relation to CRP. Both organizations offer CRP trainings, in addition to helping victims. The approaches the two employ differ. This report seeks to analyze such differences ...

The advancements in modern medicine in the last few decades are responsible for new treatment methodologies in treating deadly diseases. However, there are some areas of the human body that still remain a mystery. The human brain is one of the more complex organs and there is no forseeable outcome irrespective of the infirmity. The medical community faces hard choices whenever they encounter a difficult situation involving brain damage. The chances for recovery from a severe brain damage are slim. Hence, during such times, a hospital staff will request the family for consent to withdraw specific medical treatment or ...

Physician assisted suicide has always been a controversial social issue in the cultures around the world. It is associated with ethical issues as well as social consequences. Physician assisted suicide is defined as “an act of self-destruction committed by a patient with the assistance of a physician” It is the process of ending someone’s life based on that persons own wish. When a person wants to end his or her life because of suffering from a terminal disease or some other weakening condition, physician assisted suicide is often recommended or considered. However, some people think that physician assisted ...

Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health

The State of Missouri did not have a legitimate interest in denying the withdrawal of treatment request of Ms. Cruzan’s parents. The trial court provided a decision giving authority to Ms. Cruzan’s parents to withdraw life support. The State Supreme Court of Missouri reversed the decision. On appeal, the State Supreme Court decision was upheld. The decision to not allow the withdrawal of life support was upheld because the parents did not have the authority to make the request on behalf of their daughter, claiming that they did not provide clear and convincing evidence that the daughter ...

English

Euthanasia has always been a controversial social issue in the cultures around the world. It is associated with ethical issues as well as social consequences. The term Euthanasia itself means, mercy killing. It is the process of ending someone's life based on that person’s own wish. When a person wants to end his life because he is suffering from a terminal disease or some other weakening condition, Euthanasia is often recommended. In most of the states of the United States, euthanasia is considered illegal. However in many states including California, physician-assisted suicides are legalized based on the requirement ...

Abstract

Mitigation emphases on decreasing damages of life and property while the recovery empowers the community to regain its normalcy and cope with the situation to continue with their lives. From that avowal, it is without a doubt that they are both central and fundamental phases in the management of adversities that might arise. The two play an essential role in helping the society members to respond and bounce back despite the loss of life and damage to properties. An attempt will be made to expound the mitigation and recovery disciplines of the disaster management plan as well as the ...

Response 4

Response: 1 In the ethical violation news about the woman in Texas, the primary concern is that, can we consider her parents’ and husband’s decision as her own free will? A person who is medically declared as brain-dead cannot take a decision. In most of the cases, such patient’s relatives take the decision. As we discuss the right of the patient to be freed from life support, we should also think about the right of the baby in her womb to live. Removing the life support will kill the baby as well, which leads to another serious ...

Introduction

The discussions in this biomedical ethics case study involving the death of a patient named Mr. Paul Mills during his stay at one of the hospitals in Halifax, Nova Scotia will focus on whether Dr. Nancy Morrison’s decision to help end the patent’s suffering by injecting nitroglycerin into the IV line in an unsuccessful attempt to decrease blood pressure and thereby end the patient’s suffering and on a separate instance, injecting potassium chloride a few minutes prior to the patient’s point of expiration. It is important to note that this paper will not focus on ...