B. F. Skinner—the last few days

Care in the last days of life.

Baseline assessment Recognition that the person is dying or is approaching the last days of life Is the Recognising the Dying Person Flow Chart available to support decision-making? Yes  Diagnosis: Ethnicity: Lead practitioner name: Designation: Lead practitioner’s contact no: After-hours contact no: Note: The lead practitioner is the person’s GP, hospital specialist or nurse practitioner. The...

The influence of events during the last few days in utero on tissue destruction and renal function in the first two days of independent life.

Since women do not begin to secrete milk freely till the third day after delivery, and no other food is available in nature for the baby, its life is maintained during the first two days after birth largely at the expense of its own tissues, and some destruction of body protein and fat is inevitable. The extent of this protein breakdown was measured by McCance and Strangeways (1954) in six norm...

Hypernatraemia in the first few days: is the incidence rising?

Care of dying adults in the last days of life .

Care of people in their last days of life should be based on compassion, respect and, wherever possible, on research evidence. Previously the Liverpool Care Pathway attempted to facilitate this but it was withdrawn after an independent government report found that its uncritical implementation could lead to poor care. This Concise Guideline overviews NICE Clinical Guideline (NG31), which addres...

A chronological perspective on suicide--the last days of life.

A combined psychological autopsy and narrative approach was used to study the completed suicides of 67 Israeli soldiers. Three issues were addressed. First, the authors examined the typology of the life narratives of suicide completed during active army duty. Second, focusing on the last 3 weeks of the soldiers' lives, they sought to examine their triggers for suicide, emotional state of mind, ...