topic: euthanasia Flashcards
What is the practice of intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering?
Euthanasia
What type of euthanasia is performed with the patient’s explicit request and consent?
Voluntary Euthanasia
What type of euthanasia is performed without the patient’s consent, often when the patient is unconscious or unable to decide?
Involuntary Euthanasia
What type of euthanasia involves life-ending measures taken without the patient’s knowledge or request?
Non-voluntary Euthanasia
What method of euthanasia involves deliberate actions to end a patient’s life, such as administering a lethal injection?
Active Euthanasia
What form of euthanasia withholds or withdraws life-sustaining treatment, allowing the patient to die naturally?
Passive Euthanasia
What is the medical term for prolonging a patient’s suffering through aggressive and excessive treatments with no hope of recovery?
Dysthanasia
What practice allows a person to die naturally, respecting their dignity and comfort without unnecessary medical intervention?
Orthothanasia
What term describes medical practices that aim to delay death even when the patient’s quality of life is compromised?
Dysthanasia
What is the legal document that specifies a person’s wishes regarding end-of-life medical care?
Living Will
What healthcare principle emphasizes doing no harm and is closely linked to the debate on euthanasia?
Non-maleficence
What ethical principle supports respecting a patient’s right to refuse life-sustaining treatment?
Autonomy
What term refers to a terminally ill patient’s right to refuse extraordinary means of prolonging life?
Right to Die
What type of care focuses on improving the quality of life for patients facing terminal illnesses?
Palliative Care
What medical intervention focuses on managing pain, discomfort, and symptoms rather than curing the illness?
Comfort Care
What term refers to intentionally providing medication to alleviate pain, even if it may shorten life?
Principle of Double Effect
What type of euthanasia is often associated with physician-assisted suicide?
Active Euthanasia
What term describes a legal act in which a physician prescribes medication that a terminally ill patient may choose to self-administer to end their life?
Physician-Assisted Suicide
What ethical concept emphasizes allowing death to occur naturally without aggressive interventions?
Orthothanasia
What term describes when a patient consciously refuses treatments that would prolong life?
Informed Refusal
What principle states that healthcare professionals must always prioritize preserving life unless it conflicts with the patient’s dignity and wishes?
Principle of Totality
What practice involves withholding or withdrawing artificial ventilation, feeding tubes, or resuscitation efforts when they no longer benefit the patient?
Passive Euthanasia
What term refers to intentionally ending a patient’s life without their consent because they are unable to communicate their wishes?
Non-voluntary Euthanasia
What term describes unnecessarily extending a patient’s suffering by using extreme and futile medical interventions?
Dysthanasia
What type of euthanasia is often considered morally acceptable when done to prevent extreme and unavoidable suffering?
Passive Euthanasia
What process involves a healthcare provider intentionally administering medication to end a patient’s life?
Active Euthanasia
What is the ethical responsibility of nurses to advocate for patients’ rights to quality end-of-life care?
Nurse’s Ethical Duty
What term describes a compassionate approach to terminally ill patients that emphasizes natural death without excessive medical intervention?
Orthothanasia
What philosophical view states that life must be preserved at all costs, even when the quality of life is severely compromised?
Vitalism
What healthcare approach emphasizes the patient’s right to decline treatments that may prolong suffering?
Principle of Proportionality
