Force-feeding

Thomas, John, Wilfred Waluchow, and Elizabeth Gedge, eds. "Case 3.3 Discontinuing Force Feeding of an Anorexia Nervosa Patient. "Well and Good -Fourth Edition: A Case Study Approach to Health Care Ethics. 4th ed. New York: Broadway, 2014. 131-135. Print. This is a case study of a patient who suffers from anorexia nervosa and has been force fed for 4 years in order to keep her alive. No improvements in her mental state have been made in this time, despite the many types of therapy have been employed during this time. She objects to the force feeding, but has been declared mentally incompetent, so she cannot refuse the treatment. It is evident by her behavior that she wishes to live, but rejects the food. If her treatment were to be discontinued,…

prison including police injustice towards him, his hunger strike, and Tariq being force-fed time and time again. At the beginning of his arrest the military that was over his control took away most of his privileges. Ba Odah wrote to his lawyer “I’ve been spending twenty-four hours a day inside the cell for a long period of time, and that is due to the myriad problems I have been facing. The prison officials scheduled my two-hour recreational walk for three o’clock in the morning.” Ba Odah…

“Force-Feeding: Cruel at Guantánamo, but O.K. for Our Parents” is an article in the New York Times that talks about the cruelness of giving patients a feeding tube who don’t necessarily require it. It goes through the immoral ethics of putting a patient through the possibility of pressure ulcers on their back from lying in bed, clogging or dislodging of the tube, general discomfort, and pain. The article goes on to claim that feeding tubes also cause agony for the families of patients, as they…

insertion. Mode of delivery of enteral feeding and route selection information was outlined in 61.54% of the documents. Tube selection procedures (including sizing) was mentioned in 76.92% of the documents and insertion procedures and how to check positioning was outlined in 84.62% of the policies and guidelines. Many of the documents then provided information on choosing administration routes of feeds (i.e., continuous, bolus) (61.54%) and on formula selection (84.62%). Only one document…

Artificial nutrition and hydration should not be used for end of life patients because intravenous hydration can have a negative impact on the quality of their life. According to RJ Ackermann, M.D (Medical Doctor), “There is always a risk when someone is fed through a tube. Liquid might enter the lungs. This can cause coughing and pneumonia… They can become plugged up, causing pain, nausea and vomiting” (Artificial Hydration and Nutrition par. 19). This quote shows that it is risky to use a…

As an individual, I have always had this perception of wanting to make this world a better environment or at least a positive impact for people. This has directed me to the path of being in the medical field as a pediatrician for children. Many children may suffer from diseases or a type of illness in which they can not afford of seeing a pediatrician due to financial stability or economic reasons. In order to pursue this goal of mine, I have been immensely putting forth an effort towards…

blockage. It is very important to know the rules for enteral feeding. Before we start the feeding, hand washing is very important to reduce the risk of bacterial contamination. The first step with G tube feeding will be checking the placement of the tube, where we attach 60 cc syringe to the end of a tube and pull back on a plunger to see the stomach content (like gastric juice). Than we need to flash a G tube with 30 cc of warm water to see if the tube is patent. The enteral feeding, I had to…

Feeding America.org, Our History, tells about a man named John van Hengel, a retired businessman from Arizona, who got the idea of a food bank in the late 1960s from a mother who searched through grocery store dumpsters to feed her family. She suggested the need for a bank-like system that could gather and share waste food with hungry families. Hengel ran with the idea, and at the end of one year, he and a group of volunteers had distributed 275,000 pounds of food to people in need. By 1977,…

My patient is a forty-one-year-old female who was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma of the biliary tract. Her secondary diagnosis includes a jujuneostoomy, infection of her incision and wound care. Prior to admission she had a cholecystectomy which required her to be admitted to the hospital to receive skilled nursing care because she cannot care for herself. She has a large abdominal incision that requires packing. Additionally, she requires tube feeding and lots of IV antibiotics. She will be…

Originally, Feeding America was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1979 by a guy named John Van Hengel. It was his idea to to build a company that would help families and people in need of food. But this idea didn 't just pop up, he witnessed a tragedy that later gave him the idea of building a food bank. According the the website of Feeding America, John Van Hengel (the founder) a retired businessman, was volunteering at a soup kitchen feeding the needed. One day, he saw there was a woman…