Exam 16: End of Life Issues

The first state to enact living will legislation was ___________.

If a patient has been informed that without a blood transfusion she will die, she refuses blood, and the court orders the transfusion, the order is wrong based on the patient's right ___________.

___________ is a form of surrogate decision-making where the surrogate attempts to establish what decision the patient would have made if that patient were competent to make a decision.

The ___________ published a report outlining the symptoms of an irreversible coma.

An order written by a physician and placed on the medical chart of a patient, indicating that in the event of a cardiac or respiratory arrest, no resuscitative measures should be employed to revive the patient is a/an ___________.

Any glimmer of uncertainty as to a patient's desire in an emergency situation should be ___________.

Physician assisted suicide became legal for the first time in ___________.

If a person is comatose and incompetent to express their right to refuse medical treatment, those appointed to render their best judgment concerning how the patient would assert that right would be doing so under ___________.

The removal of nasogastric feeding tubes from a mentally competent patient to legally hasten death has been described as ___________.

In a departure from the Quinlan decision, the necessity for court intervention, and an incompetent's right to refuse treatment, this case decided that judicial proceedings should take place only when medical treatment can offer a reasonable expectation of cure or relief from the illness.