GeriPal
JANUARY 16, 2025
So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that. They have one.
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
JANUARY 16, 2025
Consider the case of a resident recovering from a traumatic brain injury and temporarily reliant on a ventilator. Rehab professionals can use this information to determine the most appropriate AAC interventions to enhance expressive communication.
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GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. Eric: Okay.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 5, 2023
And I have gone through my not-so-long career, but it’s coming up on nine years now, seeing the way that we have talked about CPR in such problematic ways, in ways that really do not enable true informed consent. And I wonder, because I read that need part a lot in this article. And I think a lot of that leads to extreme moral distress.
GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. Eric: While they’re ventilated in the ICU, would you do that too? Lauren: Shock.
GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. For example, I had another patient in the ICU who she was on a ventilator. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.
Daily Nurse
DECEMBER 9, 2024
When they arrive in the PACU, these patients may have airways in place or, in some cases, be on ventilators. It’s easier for them to process the information when alert and clear-headed. Because hospitals perform complex cases, patients are often placed under general anesthesia.
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