Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. Often in families you always have one member that wants to do every possible thing. But they don’t always understand what that means. It’s just postponing it.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. I can on one hand count the patients I’ve cared for who didn’t want mechanical ventilation. But yeah, full treatment. But I just want to, Scott, I guess we just disagree on this.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I think one of the residents you asked how would they broach a subject, and he said wording like, “Unfortunately, he still needs a ventilator.” ” You talk about this too, even in your own training, where even around CPR, the training is like he might need a ventilator if he couldn’t protect his airway.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

She could no longer feed herself, much less cook, and was dependent on others for everything. Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Within a year, she could only walk a few steps with help and mostly relied on a scooter.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. And yet, when the reality of breathing difficulties, BIPAP, the talks of tracheostomy and ventilators set in, what had seemed so clear on that piece of paper, no longer seemed so clear.

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

pain, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, poor appetite, difficulty feeding, sleep problems, itching, fatigue, difficulty breathing, etc.). Some of your hopes and goals regarding your child’s care over the: Short term (today and for the next few days). Medium term (next few weeks). Symptoms that bother your child (e.g.:

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

pain, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, poor appetite, difficulty feeding, sleep problems, itching, fatigue, difficulty breathing, etc.). Some of your hopes and goals regarding your child’s care over the: Short term (today and for the next few days). Medium term (next few weeks). Symptoms that bother your child (e.g.:

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

pain, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, poor appetite, difficulty feeding, sleep problems, itching, fatigue, difficulty breathing, etc.). Some of your hopes and goals regarding your child’s care over the: Short term (today and for the next few days). Medium term (next few weeks). Symptoms that bother your child (e.g.:

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation. Advance directives may be changed at any time as long as you are of sound mind to do so; just be sure any changes are shared with your physician and family.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation. Advance directives may be changed at any time as long as you are of sound mind to do so; just be sure any changes are shared with your physician and family.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation. Advance directives may be changed at any time as long as you are of sound mind to do so; just be sure any changes are shared with your physician and family.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In your living will, you should clearly state your preferences for medical treatment, including life-sustaining measures such as artificial ventilation and feeding tubes. Here are four things to make sure your living will covers: Your medical treatment preferences. Who you want to make decisions on your behalf.

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Hearts for Hospice & Home Health

JANUARY 6, 2021

Providers should consider patients with sepsis for hospice if the patient: Has impaired kidney failure Not responding to pharmacological treatment Require mechanical ventilation Injury to the liver Hyperlactemia Hospice is available to patients who are at the end of their life. However, some patients meet the criteria.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

So intubation, cpr, feeding tubes. Eric 19:31 So it was interventions like feeding tubes, mechanical ventilation, dialysis at the very end of life. Wait, how is that actually defined? Like, how close to the end of life is it all just in seriously ill patients, I guess. Like if somebody just drops.

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