Can Orthodox Jewish Patients Undergo Palliative Extubation? A Challenging Ethics Case Study

We report the case of an 88-year-old Orthodox Jewish patient, on invasive mechanical ventilation, with severe anoxic brain injury after multiple cardiac arrests. Although the patient ’s son informed the palliative care team that his father did not want to be in pain or to linger in a vegetative state when terminally ill, the mechanical ventilation was keeping him alive with a poor neurological prognosis.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - August 30, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Cynthia X. Pan, Bruno Almeida Costa, Elina K. Yushuvayev, Liam Gross, Fernando Kawai Source Type: research