Critical Moments
Subtitle: Death and Dying in Intensive Care
Edition: 1 edition
Series: Facing Death
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: July 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780335204236
Subjects: Death & dying; Health systems & services; Medical ethics; Pain & pain management; Terminal care nursing; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Critical Care; Gerontology; Nursing Home Care; Education / Physical Education; Critical care medicine; Death; Terminal Care
First sentence: This chapter is organized into three sections.
Description: "This book explores how the withdrawal of active medical treatment is managed in intensive care units, placing this in the context of detailed patient case studies. It examines, in particular, the notion of 'natural death' in this highly technological health care setting, and explores how doctors and nurses strive to achieve this for dying people and their families. It draws extensively on the experiences of patients' families, doctors and nurses, using interview and observational data. It is a timely account of the practical, ethical and emotional difficulties of end of life care in this complex setting . The book will be of interest to nurses working with dying people in acute hospital environments, to those engaged in the sociology of death and dying, and in the conduct of ethnographic research in this field.consequences thrown up by its use."--BOOK JACKET.