Last Days (Gus Van Sant)

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...

Gus Stadler

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 Previously the Liverpool Care Pathway attempted to facilitate this but it was withdrawn after an independent government report found that its uncritical implementation could lead to poor care.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, ...

Do-not-resuscitate orders in the last days of life.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this analysis was to describe the presence and timing of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders for imminently dying patients in VA Medical Centers, and to examine factors associated with these processes. METHODS Data on DNR orders in the last 7 days of life were abstracted from the medical records of 1,069 veterans who had died in one of six VA hospitals in 2005. RESULTS...