Ethics review: Perioperative do-not-resuscitate orders – doing ‘nothing’ when ‘something’ can be done docx

... regarding inadequate documentation, physician Review Ethics review: Perioperative do-not-resuscitate orders – doing ‘nothing’ when ‘something’ can be done Mark Ewanchuk 1,2 and Peter G Brindley 2 1 Department ... Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2 Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmont...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... regarding inadequate documentation, physician Review Ethics review: Perioperative do-not-resuscitate orders – doing ‘nothing’ when ‘something’ can be done Mark Ewanchuk 1,2 and Peter G Brindley 2 1 Department ... Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2 Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmont...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... increase) 1.45 (1.1 0–1 .91) 0.009 Immunocompromised 5.2 (1. 7–1 5.5) 0.003 >90 Ventilator days 4.0 (1. 3–1 2.0) 0.013 3 days of inotropes/vasopressors from day 30 in ICU 7.1 (2. 6–1 9.3) 0.0001 ARF ... patients using shorter ( 7–1 4 days) defi- nitions of long stay found that these patients accounted for only 4–1 1% of admissions while consuming 2 8–5 3% of avail- able bed d...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... IR(t)dt – ∫ 0 t UR(t)dt (4) Because what matters in terms of acid–base status is the concentration, rather than the net amount of electrical charge, the SID at a given time ‘t’ may be expressed ... electro- neutrality, is equivalent to the buffer base (BB; i.e. the sum of [HCO 3 – ], [A – ] and [H 2 PO 4 – ], where A – are the weak acids in dissociated form, mainly alb...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... else could be done when faced with requests for more appropriate admission [15]. It cannot be said that it is ethical behaviour for other clinicians, administrators, or family members to pressure ... a time has come to reframe the question. A better question may be as follows; can best practices for the appropriate usage of critical care services be developed that would provide...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... need to be dead for the organism to be pronounced dead; only the organ of integration need be. Without this definition, organ transplantation would be impossible because putrefaction would be the ... when the patient cannot be resuscitated by any means or when resuscitation fails. Does this mean that every dying patient must be assaulted by every possible intervention if he o...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... the best interests of the patient. How will their decision-making abilities and decisions be judged to be in the best interests of the patient? In America, if there is doubt or disagreement between ... always appear to be in the person’s ‘best interests’. A patient’s AD, however, needs only conform to their values rather than their ‘best medical interests’ – the Jehovah’s Witness be...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... decreasing psycho- logical distress for family members and reducing conflicts among ICU team members and between team and family members; and by reducing the number of concealed euthanasia procedures and ... the decision is made, to provide the best help to relatives [23]. Several topics should be covered with family members, including explanations of how the patient’s comfort will be ens...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... 1 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale “Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.” (Cited in Hoang Tat Truong 1985:1). The saying sounds very ... bricks are needed. Without bricks, no house can be built, even when plenty of high quality cement is available.” (Nguyen Huyen, 2004:1). This means that to be a competent English co...

Ngày tải lên: 05/04/2013, 15:56

... once it has been encountered. They can be defined as those are used to understand a word by asking someone who knows it. Teachers are said to be often in this position. They can be expected to ... sense relationship can be linked together while they are learnt. Grouping: words can be grouped together so that they are easier to memorize, store and recall. Words can be gr...

Ngày tải lên: 17/04/2013, 10:12