Persistent vegetative state Essays

Case: Bush v. Schiavo. 885 So. 2d 321 (Fla. 2004) Facts: Theresa Schiavo suffered cardiac arrest on February 25, 1990 which caused her to be in persistent vegetative state for eight years. Her husband (plaintiff), Michael Schiavo, petitioned to terminate the prolonging life procedures, which meant going against Theresa's parents, Mary and Robert Schindler, by removing her nutrition and hydration tubes that will also discontinue Theresa's life. Theresa has lived in nursing homes with constant care

born and raised in Pensylvania with her family until she later moved to Florida with her husband Michael Schiavo. When Theresa Schiavo was 27 years old she suffered cardiac arrest due to a potassium imbalance. For ten years Theresa remained in a vegetative state where she was kept alive by nutrition and hydration tubes. Michael Schiavo petitioned the Florida guardianship court for authority to terminate Theresa’s life support but her parents opposed Michael’s petition. Six days after the Florida legislature

introduce to a 38-year-old patient who suffer a car accident around eight years ago. During the car accident he suffer an aorta rupture that left him in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). Over the past five years Bob has been taken care for at a Catholic nursing home were he receives tube feeding, fluids and treatments for complications of his state. Recently his wife Lola and Bob’s parents have decided that they would want to discontinue Bobs feeding tube. The physician agree that it was acceptable

Introduction As an advanced practice nurse, one is bound to be faced with various ethical legal dilemmas that in most cases require urgent decision making that involve both moral and ethical considerations. Ethical dilemmas are basically situations where there are two available courses of action that completely contradict each other. The nurse has no choice but to make a decision between the two choices because each of the two decision choices is equally urgent and each of them seems to be the right

Valerie Harper was found unconscious and transported to a local hospital on Wednesday night. The actress was part of the play "Nice Work If You Can Get It" at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine and had fans waiting to see her in the audience. According to FOX News on Thursday, the actress collapsed back stage and emergency personnel was brought in as she was unconscious. Sources in the report suggest that the situation "doesn't look good." The situation has some fans wondering if she has been working

Michael Schavio was the only witness or the person responsible for Terri's illness. Even more complicated, it’s the years where Terri's life has been dependable on his spouse decisions to decide if death should be the best option for her, she was in a vegetative, able to breath and keep her blood pressure, but most important she needed a tube

of making rational decisions." They feel that even though a person may be destined to die, they can still make rational decisions and should be allowed to have their agony put to an end (Times 2). But what about those in comas and permanent vegetative states, or those who are not mentally competent but still terminally ill? Don 't these people deserve the right to die also? An association called the Surviving Family Members in Support of Physician Assisted Dying took on this challenge. They proposed

A young girl Karen Ann Quinlan on April 15, 1975, slipped into a coma and her case began a major debate about “the right to die”. The defendant’s, in this case, are the doctors and hospital officials and the plaintiffs are the parents Mr. Joseph and Mrs. Julia Quinlan. One night Karen Quinlan hung out with friends and during the night she drank and took tranquilizers that made her pass out. Karen was taken to a hospital in New Jersey that night and shortly after she went into a coma which lasted

best interest in mind when making medical decisions? Who should ultimately make the decision of life or death for patients that will never leave a permanent vegetative state? Lester and Joyce Cruzan faced an issue no parent ever wants to face after their daughter, Nancy was in a horrific car accident that left her in a persistent vegetative state. On January 11, 1983 Nancy Cruzan lost control of her vehicle and was ejected from the car. She was found face down in a ditch with no pulse or breathing

Karen Ann Quinlan, a twenty-two year old from New Jersey, went to a party, took diazepam and dextropropoxyphene, and consumed alcohol. Later that night, she went into a coma and was in and out of vegetative state for months. Her parents then asked the doctors to take her off the ventilator so she could die peacefully, but the physicians refused. They took the situation to the courts and won so Karen was removed from the ventilator, and slowly died nine years later from pneumonia (Byrne). The doctors

3. Give specific examples of how health care professionals did not value or respond effectively to any of the Hmong values/beliefs you have listed in the questions above. What was the outcome of that cultural insensitivity. The Hmong traditions, beliefs and ways of life were often compromised at the hands of American society. Cultural insensitivity is prevalent throughout the Hmong’s journey with the American health care system. Between 8 months and 4.5 years Lia was in the hospital seventeen

When you hear the word death or you hear that someone has died today in the news or on the television I know a lot of people think “Man, I feel sorry for the family that they have to go through that.” or they thank god that it was not them or their family members.” Sadly though people try to push away death and push away the fact that everyone dies at one point in time. This is even truer when they witness their own family member in the hospital with a critical condition that the doctors cannot fix

Kate Dombroski Mr. Shields English II 26 April 2018 Euthanasia in the United States In as little as ten days, a law can be passed in the United States. In that short amount of time, a law that would allow a person to die with the assistance of a trained physician could be passed. That law would be passing what is known as euthanasia. Euthanasia is a highly controversial practice that is illegal in the majority of the country. Euthanasia is looked at as a humane way to die by some people; however

In her brilliant and award-winning book, The Spirit Catches You & You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman skillfully demonstrates the cultural clash between a small county hospital in California, and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with sever epilepsy. Both Lia’s parents, as well as the doctors present, wanted what was best for her. However, the lack of understanding between them led to a tragedy. Fadiman did an outstanding job at demonstrating that cultural understanding

treatment. The Lees preferred traditional and spiritual treatment that clearly differed from the doctors’ Westernized treatment. Through a constant battle between proper treatment and the Lee parent’s compliance, this caused Lia to live in a persistent vegetative state for the majority of her life. The language barrier that the Lee’s faced at Merced hospital was discouraging,

William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark has many deaths in it, emphasizing the title’s claim as a tragedy. Most of the deaths in the play can be traced to a certain act of violence. Any given act of violence in this play has a meaning attached to it. The main act of violence that starts the chain of events to bring about the end of the play is when Prince Hamlet stabs Polonius. Polonius was spying on a meeting between Hamlet and the Queen to measure Hamlet’s sanity and to see

about boys and girls behavior based on her own personal experiences and challenges of raising boys and girls. She focuses specifically on differences in discipline, physical safety, communication, self-esteem and schooling. For each category, she states which gender is harder to raise. Her statements are biased based on her own experiences and stereotypically specific to American culture. Spencer maintains a primarily biological (“nature”) perspective as the primary cause of a child’s behavior and

Around the world, females are conjoined with taking care of others. Women are ascribed with the responsibility of their family more than men are. With a look into the family formation, if the daughter disrespects her parents or if the mother does not want to look after her child or if the wife leaves her husband women’s are seen more reprehensible then sons, fathers and husbands. The gender norms set all around the world hold back women by keeping them under pressure and not allowing them to set

In lines eight through twelve of the poem, the speaker states “I don’t ask myself what I’m looking for. I didn’t come for answers to a place like this, I came to walk on the earth, still cold, still silent.” The speaker says that the earth is cold and silent, illustrating how he or she sees the world as dead

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