- 8 06 Pm Sat Mar 12 Take Quiz Case Analysis Description Scott T Martin Sr A Firefighter And Emergency Medical Technicia 1 (68.09 KiB) Viewed 34 times
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8:06 PM Sat Mar 12 Take Quiz Case Analysis Description Scott T Martin, Sr, a firefighter and emergency medical technician in Easton, Massachusetts, suffered a stroke on March 22, 2012. Surgery was performed in April, but it was unsuccessful, and Mr. Martin never regained consciousness. He was transferred to the New England Sinai Hospital in a persistent vegetative state (see below for more information on this condition. When he developed pneumonia in August, both his physicians and Mary Martin his wife and legal guardian, concurred in an order not to resuscitate him if he suffered a cardiac arrest. In December 2012. Mrs. Martin gave the physicians permission for a surgical procedure to insert a feeding tube into his stomach He received seven and a half hours of nursing care each day, consisting of bathing, shaving, turning, and so on Me Martin's medical bills, approximately $10,000 per month, were paid entirely by Blue Cross/Blue Shield Mt. Martin had often told family members that he did not want to be kept alive if he ever became comatose. In a discussion of the Karen Ann Quinlan case, he had indicated to his wife that I don't ever want to be on a life-support system. No way do I want to live like that that's just not living several years earlier, the town of Easton had given Me Martin and his partner a commendation for bravery after they had pulled a man from a burning truck. When he learned that the victim had suffered a great deal before dying several months after being saved, Mr. Martin threw his commendation into the wastebasket, exclaiming to his wife, "I should have been five minutes later. It would have been all over for him." He told his brother, Leo, "i'm ever like that, just pull the plug." And prior to his own neurosurgery, he told one of his daughters. "If I can't sit up to kiss one of my beautitul daughters, I may as well be six feet under Mrs. Martin, a devout Catholic and also a nurse, decided to
question the continuation of artificial feeding when her husband's condition remained unchanged through the next year. There was no hope that he would regain consciousness, and, though he had never expressed a specific judgment about artificial feeding, she recalled his previously expressed wishes about "pulling the plug"She consulted with clergy, ethicists, and a lawyer before requesting withdrawal of artificial nutrition with the understanding that her husband would die in one to two weeks after the removal of the artificial nutrition. Her decision received the unanimous support of the five children and other family members, including Mr. Martin's seven brothers and sisters and his elderly mother, who was in her 90s However the physicians and the hospital administration refused to act on this request. a "The vegetative state is a clinical condition of complete unawareness of the self and the environment, accompanied by sleep-wake cycles, with either complete or partial preservation of hypothalamic and brain-stem autonomic functions. In addition, patients in a vegetative state show no evidence of sustained, reproducible, purposeful, or voluntary behavioral responses to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimull show no evidence of language comprehension or expression have bowel and bladder incontinence and have variably preserved cranial-nerve and spinal reflexes. We define persistent vegetative state as a vegetative state present one moth after acute traumatic or nontraumatic brain
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Question 2 Justify why you classified each person as facing an ethical problem, or not, in the previous
question. If they are facing an ethical problem, what is it? If they are not facing an ethical problem, why not? There should be a response for each person. . Mary Martin • Scott Martin • Mr. Martin's physicians • New England Sinai Hospital Administration • Karen Ann Quinlan 12 ptParagraph B I VA V V Tv