puppyinashoe t1_j4wbrh7 wrote
Reply to comment by 0skullkrusha0 in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
Yes I’m an ICU nurse and this is the most difficult part of our jobs. I love my job but I hate working an assignment where I am truly just torturing an intubated 90 year old who has no hope of meaningful recovery and is spending their last days, their last memories, with me turning them q2 and assaulting their mouth with q4 oral care. We just extubated a 90 year old who lasted 5 days on the floor and is now back after aspirating and coding. She’s re-intubated and the daughter is STILL saying if she was successfully extubated once it can happen again. But only lasting 5 days before having to be reintubated d/t a lack of airway protection doesn’t seem successful in my mind.
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