Prolonging procedures 2025

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The document is a declaration for life-prolonging procedures, allowing an individual to express their desire for medical interventions in the event of a terminal condition. It emphasizes the individual's right to request treatments that extend life and ensure comfort, while also designating family and physicians to honor this decision if the individual is unable to communicate it.

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What does prolonged treatment mean?

Your health care provider may tell you that these organs will not repair themselves. Medical care to prolong life can keep you alive when these organs stop working well. The treatments may extend your life, but do not cure your illness. These are called life-sustaining treatments.

What does prolong lives mean?

To prolong something means to make it last longer.

What are the methods of prolonging life?

The benefits and burdens of these should be considered in light of your goals, values and beliefs. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) Artificial ventilation (breathing machines) Tube feeding. Dialysis (kidney machine) Palliative care. Other life-prolonging treatments.

What is an example of artificially prolonging life?

Examples include cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the event of a cardiac arrest, mechanical ventilation in the event of respiratory failure, dialysis in the setting of kidney failure, and artificial hydration/nutrition.

What are the examples of prolonged life support?

Life-sustaining medical treatments include all interventions that may prolong the life of patients and can range from technologically complex treatments (eg, ventilator, dialysis, or vasoactive drugs) to less-complex measures (eg, antibiotics, insulin, or artificial nutrition and hydration).

What is considered life prolonging treatment?

Life-sustaining Treatments A machine to help with breathing (ventilator) A machine to help your kidneys (dialysis) A tube into your stomach to provide food (nasogastric or gastrostomy tube) A tube into your vein to provide fluids and medicines (intravenous, IV tube)

What does life prolonging mean?

What is life-prolonging treatment? There are many kinds of treatment that can help you live longer. These may be needed for only a short time until your illness improves. Or you may use them over the long term to help keep you alive.

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