Death Flashcards
Learn about Dying (48 cards)
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Q
Death
How has death reduced in Dev Nations?
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- Increased Average Life Expectancy due to better medicine
- Lots of eliminated diseases ⤇ 54% ☟ Mortality from 1900 ➨ 2010
- ☝︎ Hygiene
- ☝︎ Healthcare access
- Lower Childhood Mortality
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Q
Death
Why do Men die before Women?
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- Bigger Risks
- Increased heart disease risk
- ☟social connection and going to doctor
- ☝︎ suicide success
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Q
Death
What determines longer lifespan
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- Height: Shorter = Better
- Ethnicity
- Socioeconomic Status: Higher = Better
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Q
QOL Old People
Why is it low and what does it cause?
A
- Disabilities, Loneliness
- Most healthcare costs ain US
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Q
Death
How has life span decreased?
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- No universal Healthcare
- ☝︎Obesity and correlating diseases
- ☝︎Childhood Mortality
- ☝︎OD deaths
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Q
Medical Advances
What advances have increased life span?
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- Artificial feeding
- Dialysis
- Cardiopulmonary Bypass (CPB)
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Defibrilation and Artifical Pacemaker
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Q
Med Advances
Why are they bad?
A
- Lasts a few years and is expensive
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Q
Dead
Definition
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- 60s: Brain, Lungs, Heart Stopped
- But aft 60s, could continue heart beating w/o brain and lungs
- Cardiopulmonary Failure Definition: Stop Breathing / Heart Stops Beating
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Q
Dead
How and why is a heart harvested?
A
- Needs to be beating for transplant
- Gotten from brain dead individual
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Q
Dead
Harvard Brain Death Committee
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- 1968
- Brain Death = Irreversible Coma
- 4 Criteria for brain death:
- Unreceptivity and unresponsivity to external stimuli
- No movements or breathing
- No reflexes: Fixed, dilated pupil, no reaction
- Flat EEG
- Losing Identity = Death
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Q
Coma
What is it?
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- Loss of conciousness
- Closed Eyes
- No pupil response
- Not awakened by talk or touch
- Breathing on own but irregular
- Decreased brain function
- Usually less than several weeks
- Like Anesthesia
- NOT SLEEP
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Q
Coma
What causes it?
A
- Medically-Induced: ☟O2 needs
- Illness
- Injury
- Aneurysm
- Blocked Artery
- Diabetes
- Alcohol and Drugs
- Drowning
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Q
Coma
How is it evaluated?
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- Levels of Coma
- Levels of responsiveness
- Rancho Los Amiogo Scale (while emerging)
- Glasgow coma scale: 3(worst) ➞ 15 (while in coma)
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Q
Coma
Coma vs Vegetative State
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- Awake but unresponsive
- Often emerge from deeper coma into vegetative coma
- No response to stimuli
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Q
Coma
What is a Vegetative State
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- Last > few months→ most irreversible → Permanent (>12 mo)
- Very poor outcome
- Deep unconsciouness and unawareness
- wakeful but profound unresponsiveness
- Non-functional cerebral cortex
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Q
Coma
What can people in vegetative state do?
A
- Eyes may follow
- Laugh or cry without reason
- Grind teeth, swallow, smile, shed tears, grunt, moan, scream
- No external stimuli
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Q
Coma
Persistent Vegetative State
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- Feeding tube/ intervenous feeding can keep alive
- Previously would have starved to death
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Q
Coma
Recovery
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- Depends on Case:
- Diabetes = quick
- Drugs and alcohol = quick
- Brain = long/never
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Q
Drugs
Drug abuse impacts
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- Addiction
- Medical: Neurotixicity. AIDS, Cancer, Mental illness
- Social
- Economic: $3.73 Triilion
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Q
Drugs
Addiction Definition
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- Continuing, compulsive use of a substance that occurs despite negative consequences to the user
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Q
Drugs
What does it affect/is affected by?
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- Young brains more susceptible: brain “molds” around activity
- Multiple factors:
- Biology / Genes: Mental Health
- Environmental: Trauma
- Brain Mechanisms
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Q
Drugs
Why take drugs?
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- Feel Good: Novel feelings, sensations, experiences
- Turns into Feeling Better: Lessen anxiety, worries fears, depression, hopelessness
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Q
Addiction
Affected Brain Regions
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- Activate Nucleus Accumbens: Motivation + pleasure ➞ drugs activate: CRAVING SENSATION
- Activate Ventral Tragmental Area (VTA): pleasure center with lots of connections to N.A. ➞ RUSH SENSATION
- Depressed Frontal Cortex: Worse decision making and altered memories
- Serotonin and Dopamine increased
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Q
Addiction
Olds and Milner Experiment
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- Animal Model for addiction in humans
- How it was conducted
1. Put electrode in NA
2. Rate stimulated with pedal- Pressed many times per hour
- Did it while starving and dehydrating themselves
- Activated and sought activation even with negatvie consequences
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# Addiction
Taking drug for first time
* First consumption leads to activation skyrockets quickly and depresses NA ➟ feeling awful
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# Addiction
∆FosB
* Addiction Chemical
* Takes extremely long for levels to decrease
* Affected by genetic history: Increases ∆FosB at higher increments
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# Addiction
Addiction with Genetics
* Fewer dopamine receptors ➞ Increased addiction
* Introverts lower risk for addiction, extroverts opposite
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# Addiciton
Addiction with Environment
* Stress
* Early abuse
* Witnessing violence
* Those around you using
* More use when in bad circumstances vs good ones: Cages vs rat park
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# Opioids
Order of highest OD Deaths
1. Synthetic
1. Psychostimulants
1. Cocaine
1. Prescription Opioids
1. Heroin
1. Benzodiazapines
1. Antidepressants
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# Opiates
Poppy Seed Opiates
* Morphine and Codeine
* Opium comes from poppy seed as a highly addictive narcotic drug
* Natural morphinone/codeinone
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# Opiates
How they work
Activates/ Mimics endorphins ⇒ Pain relief
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# Opiates
Three OD Waves
1. Wave 1: 1990s: rise in Prescription Opioid deaths
1. Wave 2: 2010: Rise in Heroin Deaths
1. Wave 3: 2013: Synthetic Pain Killers Deaths
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# Opiates
Misusers
* 11.4 million / 4.2% of the population = Rx Pain Reliever Misusers
* 886,000 = Heroin
* 562,000 = Both
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# Opiates
Triplicate vs Nontriplicate System
* Trip: ensuring Monitoring drug prescriptions
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# Opiates
Heroin
* 1897: Synthesized by Bayer
* Tried to make morphine into codine, but accidentally made heroin
* Binds to heroin receptors and goes through BBB quickly
* Intravenous Injection
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# Opiates
Heroin Effects
1. Slows down circulation
1. Depresses bowel activity
1. Suppresses cough reflecxes and slows down breathing
1. Sedation and dizziness
1. Irregular periods and lost interest in sex
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# Opiates
Fentanyl
* 50-100x potent vs Heroin
* Mixed with alcohol and rise in effects
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# Opiates
Narcan
* Competitive antagonist
* Binds to opioid receptor
* Shields from further OD by not allowing other opioids to bind
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# John Stuart Mill: The Rickety Bridge
What is it?
If a rickety bridge exists, what is the government's role in the matter?
1. Sign?
2. Close the bridge?
3. Do nothing?
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# John Stuart Mill: The Rickety Bridge
Case Study #1: Tobacco
* 1999-2007: US vs Philip Morris
* Used RICO Act(Racketeering Law)
* Prohibited ad words and corrective statements on addiction
* Billions for health damage
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# Case Studies for John Stuart Mill: The Rickety Bridge
Government Possible Roles For Case #1
1. Raise age restrictions: similarities to alcohol
1. Raise taxes on cigarettes: harder to smoke + rethink economic choices
1. Ban smoking in all public areas: Go against freedom
1. Make cigarettes illegal everywhere for everyone
1. Keep the law as it is
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# Case Studies for John Stuart Mill: The Rickety Bridge
Government Possible Roles For Case #2
1. Raise age restrictions: similarities to alcohol
1. Raise taxes on cigarettes: harder to smoke + rethink economic choices
1. Ban smoking in all public areas: Go against freedom
1. Make cigarettes illegal everywhere for everyone
1. Keep the law as it is
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# Case Studies for John Stuart Mill: The Rickety Bridge
Government Possible Roles For Case #3
1. Move off Schedule I: must research but can’t on Schedule I
1. Legalize recreational & palace high taxes and age restrictions like tobacco
1. Keep the laws as they are: states may vary
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# Case Studies for John Stuart Mill: The Rickety Bridge
Government Possible Roles For Case #4
1. Ban them - addiction therapy,
1. Invest in research for new drugs - people in need,
1. Prohibit advertising drugs to consumers
1. Prohibit online pharmacies
1. Public education efforts
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# Case Studies for John Stuart Mill: The Rickety Bridge
Case #2: Vaping
* July 2020: 758 lawsuits against Juul and others
* Deceptive Marketing
* Bleeding in brain
* Lung injuries/deaths
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# Case Studies for John Stuart Mill: The Rickety Bridge
Case #3: Marijuana
* 1970 Controlled Substances Act, Schedule I (on par with heroin)
* Gonzales v. Raich (2005)
* Supremacy clause ⇒ National laws > State Laws
* Patchwork of laws: ☝︎ Ignored by Pres and fed govt
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# Case Studies for John Stuart Mill: The Rickety Bridge
Case #4: Opioids
* 25% misuse, 10% addiction, 5% transition to heroin
* 2016-17: doctor shopping
* One doc: 500,000 doses
* Lawsuit against internet pharmacies and doctors
* Mallinckrodt, Insys, Purdue bankruptcies
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# Medical Decisions for Minors
Big conflict
* Minor's bodily autonomy/ QOL vs Parent's responsibility as ward
* Also determined by how necessary the treatment is and if ther are alternatives
* Age of child to determine their autonomy
