The UDDA act model provides two different requirements for determining when death has occurred: 1) irreversible cesssation of circulatory and respiratory function or 2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the _______
What is the brain?
100
This was banned by the NOTA act...
What is purchase or sale of human organs and tissues?
100
A document detail the situations and type of medical care a patient desires...
What is a living will?
100
A document detailing the sutiations and type of medical care a patient desires...
What is a living will?
100
The initial stage of grief exhibited by people coping with loss is...
What is denial?
200
When testing for irreversible cessage of circulatory problems, doctors will turn off the _______ and monitor the heart to see if it beats on its own.
What is a pacemaker?
200
This act was passed by Congress in 1984 to combat issues of organ donation...
What is National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA)?
200
The division of property by descent and distribution, for persons who are without a will...
What is intestacy?
200
An ideology related to caring for patients and their families when facing the end of life...
What is hospice?
200
This stage deals with the inability to accept the stressor ...
What is depression?
300
For irreversible cessation of respiratory problems, doctors will turn off the ______ and see if the patient can initiate breath on their own.
What is a respirator?
300
A contributing factor used to determine potential organ recipients includes the donor or recipients ______ type?
What is blood?
300
An order wirten by the physician which indicates what medical treatments or procedures are not to be performed...
What is a DNR?
300
Bereavement, an emotional response to loss is called...
What is grief?
300
This stage of grief has the person attempting to find a way out...
What is bargaining?
400
To determine brain activity, dorcuts perform this test to identify the electrical function of the brain.
What is a EEG - electroencephalogram?
400
A recommendation is made to this team by the apatient's physician with a letter of recommendation to be placed on an organn donation waiting list.
What is the local transplant team?
400
A person designed to make medical decisions for someone who is incapacitated...
What is a healthcare proxy?
400
An approach to patient care where comfort measures and pain relief are provided instead of trying to cure a patient's disease or medical condition...
What is palliative?
400
This stage of grief is directly correlated to the impact the stressor has on the person...
What is anger?
500
This act was drafted by the National Conference of Uniform State Laws.
What is the UDDA - Uniform Determination of Death Act?
500
One of the contributing factors used to determine who potential organ recipients is the size of the ......
What is size of the organ being donated?
500
Any document that provides instructions for patient care that is made by a patient before he or she becomes incapacitated...
What is advance directives?
500
The ending fo aperson's life either voluntarily or involuntary, either by taking measures to end that person's life or not performing measures that would save the person's life...
What is euthanasia?
500
The stage of grief which helps people deal with their grief and move lead productive lives is ....