tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "A matter of life and death"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: A matter of life and death. | Comment A matter of life and death Gregory A Petsko Address Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center Brandeis University Waltham MA 02454-9110 USA. E-mail petsko@ Published 28 April 2005 Genome Biology 2005 6 109 doi gb-2005-6-5-109 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2005 6 5 109 2005 BioMed Central Ltd Terri Schiavo died at 9 05 on the morning of March 31 2005. That s what her death certificate says. Thirteen days previously at the request of her husband Michael Schiavo who said he was carrying out her wishes her doctors removed the feeding tube that was keeping her alive. Without food or water she eventually succumbed to heart failure at age 41. The death certificate doesn t come close to telling the real story of her death however. Some people including her parents siblings and a number of religious and political figures would probably claim that on that morning Terri Schiavo was murdered either by her husband or her doctors or both. Others think she should have been allowed to die at least seven years earlier when her husband first requested it. And then there are those like me who believe that on the morning of March 31 2005 Terri Schiavo had already been dead for fifteen years. Terri Schiavo born Theresa Marie Schindler was a young married woman of 26 when she went into cardiac arrest possibly as a result of potassium imbalance brought on by an eating disorder. When her heart stopped she lost oxygen to her brain for a considerable period of time before emergency medical personnel were able to restart it. From that moment on Terri Schiavo never uttered a word made a voluntary conscious movement she exhibited involuntary reflex actions only or responded to any external stimuli. Neurologists who examined her said she was in what they term a persistent vegetative state a condition that sounds as bad as it is. Her electroencephalogram EEG was flat indicative of .