WEEK TWELVE: DEATH Flashcards
what is the trend in life expectancy?
For someone who is born in 2019, the life expectancy
M: 80 years F: 84
Infants: genetic, prenatal, birth complication, SIDS
Childhood: accidents, illness, homicide
Adolescences and emerging adulthood: accidents, illnesses, homicide, suicide
Middle and late adulthood: chronic illness
what is clinical death?
the moment the heart stops beating blood, and thereby oxygen can no longer circulate throughout the body
what is whole brain death?
the irreverisble loss of functioning in the entire brain which may occur prior to clinical death
what is persistent vegetative state?
cortical death when the person appears awake but is not area, due to permanent loss of activity in the cortex
what is the Canadian definition of brain death (brain arrest)?
the final clincal expression of complete and irreversible neurological failure.
what is advance care planning?
the process of thinking about and writing down your wishes or instruction for present or future health care treatment in the event you become incapable of deciding for yourself.
what is hospice?
an approach to end-of-life care that emphasizes a dying patient’s need for pain management, psychological, spiritual, and social support as well as death with dignity.
what is dying with dignity?
ending one’s life in way that is true to one’s preferences and controlling end of life care
what is palliative care?
an alternative to medical treatment in which dying patients recieve medications to control pain and related symptoms
what is medical assistance in dying (MAID)?
a process through which a doctor or nurse assist an individual to die peacefully.
Physicians and nurse practitioners can provide MAID
Pharmacists, family members and health care providers can help with MAID
Two types of MAID
Directly administer a substance that causes death
Provides or prescibes a drug that the eligible person takes themselves in order to bring about their own death
Eligibility
18+ and mentally competent
Give infromed consent
Have a gerivous and irremediable medical consition
Make a voluntary request for MAID that is not the result of outside pressure or influence
what are the four characteristic of a mature concept of death?
Nonfunctionality
Irreversibility
Inevitablity
Biological causality
what is non functionality?
functional capabilities of the body have indeed
what is irrevsibility?
the transition from being alive to being dead cannot be undone
what is inevitability?
death is universal, and all living things will someday die
what is biological causality?
death is caused by events or conditions that trigger a natural process within the organism
