Clinical death

ethics committee discuss how to determine what is ethical in this circumstance. There were questions from clinical staff at one point, does allowance of experimental clinical trial drug give the patient and family false hope. The drug was to help the patient in the clinical study to cope emotionally. The family had a moral standard, yet how much financial loss occurred from using the clinical trial. What about the other patients whom may have needed to use the experimental drug? Ethically the…

General Medical Council (GMC) are the body which govern the registration of medical practitioners across the United Kingdom. In 2009 a 2nd edition of ‘Tomorrow’s Doctors’ [1] was published which outlined in more detail the GMCs standards of knowledge, clinical and practical skills and the behaviour expected of all undergraduate medical students. The job of the GMC regulations is ‘protecting, promoting and maintaining the health and safety of the public’ [1]. This ensures the best patient safety,…

the importance of choosing drugs that do not increase cardiovascular risk and reduce the risk of cardiovascular events. The US FDA and has recommended its Guidance for Industry for drug developers in 2008 that new drugs for type 2 diabetes undergo clinical trials should fulfill cardiovascular safety in addition to glycemic benefit and rule out potentially harmful drug interactions. The European Medicines Agency recommended same. Cautious selection of the drug therapy, specifically cardiovascular…

millions of deaths annually and have a well established record of keeping people free from certain diseases. Measles, mumps, tetanus and other life threatening illnesses have been reduced by more than 95% (Meadows 1). Despite all the success and scientific evidence, some people still consider vaccines harmful. This belief has lead to a decline in vaccination rates and negative publicity towards vaccines. To ensure the safety of vaccines, vaccines must go through extensive clinical tests before…

Function One of the first frameworks nursing students learn in school is the importance of assessing the patient’s airway, breathing, and circulation (ABCs). These three concepts are critical for survival, and alteration of any of these can result in death. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) involves two conditions: emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Emphysema is characterized by the loss of lung elasticity and destruction of alveoli, which then leads to a decreased surface area for gas…

may be characterized by multiple treatment episodes). Strategic linkage of EHR with other data resources such as tumor registries, genomic repositories, and survival data provides the opportunity to understand unique characteristics of more severe clinical disease [3, 9]. The EHR also contains address information, allowing linkage with environmental factors potentially associated with risk of occurrence. I have used EHR data from the Sutter Health patient population to report on disparities in…

eligible to participate in this study of which 258 who had a negative ISAR and 159 had a positive ISAR. Of the 258 patient cart reviewed. 102 of the patient who tested positive for the ISAR were admitted to Hospital had longer length of stay and even death. However there were gaps and inconsistencies in the study during sample collection due to compliance from nursing staff willingness to complete the ISAR score and omission of charts were seen as a limitation to the study. According to the…

sessions for hypothesis testing were radical, anti-authoritarian ideas that remain significant and enduring contributions to the field of psychotherapy” (Samstag, 2007, p. 298). Rogers published many journal articles and the following books: The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child (1939), Counseling and Psychotherapy (1942), Client-Centered Therapy (1951), On Becoming a Person (1961), The Therapeutic Relationship and Its Impact (1967), Freedom to Learn (1969), Carl Rogers on Encounter…

love their pets while killing some of them at the same time? They own cats, dogs and several other animals for entertainment and kill them for health benefits. This perspective is illogical. The health of these research animals slowly erodes into death. Furthermore, before these animals die, they are forced to inhale toxic fumes, suffer pain for several hours, have their skin burned off, their spinal cords crushed, holes drilled into their skulls, and live in a small glass box (PETA). This is an…

Death and Dying Death is part of the circle of life, and everyone living on this earth must face it at some point. It is inevitable. Death not only affects the person dying, but everyone who knew and loved the individual as well. There are two major, different definitions of death. The first is clinical death, which means that an individual lacks a heartbeat and respiratory functions, and the second is whole brain death, which is proclaimed when there is no “spontaneous movement in response to…