NSE 22A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Sepsis, Dentures, Holding Hands
25 Apr 2016
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Case 1: palliative care at the end of life. Eol care focuses on physical and psychosocial needs: goals of care are to: Provide comfort and supportive care during dying process. Help ensure a dignified death: canada"s health care system believes in this care each person has the right to skilled, compassionate, and respectful care at the end of life. Death occurs when all vital organs and systems cease to function. Death is the irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory function or the irreversible cessation of all function of the entire brain, incl. the brainstem. As death approaches, metabolism is reduced and body gradually slows down until all function ends. Respirations become incr. erratic and gradually stop, then heart stops beating within few minutes. Sensory changes incl. blurred vision, decrease sense of taste and smell, and decrease pain and touch perception. Sense of touch decrease first in lower extremities because of circulatory alterations.
