Palliative care and physician assisted suicide Flashcards
1
Q
what is the purpose of palliative care? which principles does it deal with?
A
- enhance comfort and wellbeing
- facilitate patient autonomy
- optimize quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering
- cover the continuum of illness, including end of life care
- provide aggressive symptom management
- beneficence, nonmaleficence
2
Q
withholding and withdrawing treatment deals with what ethical principles and concepts?
A
- autonomy
- informed consent
3
Q
a living will requires what conditions of the patient?
A
- terminally ill
- permanently unconscious
