Ian is a 29-year-old male who sustained a major head injury in a car accident 7 years ago. He is in a long-term care facility. Ian cannot communicate in any way, requires total care, and is incontinent of urine and stool. He is likely in a persistent vegetative state, and his prognosis is thought by the team to be hopeless, He has a gastronomy tube and receives regular feedings. Ian’s parents believe that their son would not wish to be maintained in this way and have requested that the feeding tube be removed. They have made this request several times in past years. However, the hospital’s policy does not allow discontinuation of tubes. As tubes are replaced at regular intervals, Ian’s family is now asking that their son’s tube not be replaced in the event that it accidentally falls out. Questions 1. What are your views on this hospital’s policy regarding withdrawal of treatment?
The main aim of the hospitals is to provide care and treatment to the patients.So hospitals policy does not allow the discontinuation of treatment because the main goal of teh hospital is to administer care so that patients can live.
Only when there is dysfunction in more than 3 organs then the hospital may consider the withdrawal of tretmentr because there is no way to provide treatment and death is inevitable.Then and only then with the consent of family members and by decision of doctors where they cannot prevent the death of the patient then the treatment withdrawal is seen.
I agree with hospital policy because in my view the right to live or die should be in the hands of the patient and when they are not able to make the decision we should respect their life and provide care so that they can live even though they may not have any conciousness.
Ian is a 29-year-old male who sustained a major head injury in a car accident 7...
Ian is a 29-year-old male who sustained a major head injury in a car accident 7 years ago. He is in a long-term care facility. Ian cannot communicate in any way, requires total care, and is incontinent of urine and stool. He is likely in a persistent vegetative state, and his prognosis is thought by the team to be hopeless, He has a gastronomy tube and receives regular feedings. Ian’s parents believe that their son would not wish to be...
Ian is a 29-year-old male who sustained a major head injury in a car accident 7 years ago. He is in a long-term care facility. Ian cannot communicate in any way, requires total care, and is incontinent of urine and stool. He is likely in a persistent vegetative state, and his prognosis is thought by the team to be hopeless, He has a gastronomy tube and receives regular feedings.Ian’s parents believe that their son would not wish to be maintained...
Ian is a 29-year-old male who sustained a major head injury in a car accident 7 years ago. He is in a long-term care facility. Ian cannot communicate in any way, requires total care, and is incontinent of urine and stool. He is likely in a persistent vegetative state, and his prognosis is thought by the team to be hopeless, He has a gastronomy tube and receives regular feedings.Ian’s parents believe that their son would not wish to be maintained...
Twenty-nine year old Janet and her husband Jack were driving home from her ob-gyn appointment when tragedy struck. Another driver, elderly and distracted by an incoming text message, ran a red light and T-boned Janet and Jack’s Mini-Cooper. Both young people sustained severe injuries. Jack died enroute to the hospital. Janet survives, having escaped injury except to her head; but that was unfortunately massive. Her physicians now say, a month after the accident, that the prognosis is grim. The best...