Pain of ICU patients: Why can't we choose "life" or "death" by ourselves? It's too painful.

From the perspective of ordinary people, hospitals represent pain and suffering. Once seriously ill, positive people may be able to barely resist, while negative people can only wait for the end of their lives. Unfortunately, there are many of the latter.

With the rapid development of medical technology, there are still some diseases that cannot be completely cured, and some critical diseases can only temporarily maintain the lives of patients through conservative treatment. In this case, ICU came into being.

After many people come to this place, they know their own environment. Not to mention how much they spend, it also means that you have to be exhausted. Patients here don't even have the right to choose their own lives.

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Pain of ICU patients: Why can't we choose "life" or "death" by ourselves? It's too painful.

Many people think that living in ICU means that half a foot has set foot on the road to death. This situation is a great test for a conscious old man, and it is also painful for his family, because most old people will want to give up, but their children want to sell their houses and cars just to save the man lying in the ICU bed, which vividly shows the preciousness of family ties!

I once saw a photo in the corridor of the hospital. The old man in the photo is full of silver hair, and he is still holding his wife's hand in his 90 s. Because of his respiratory failure and heart failure, he has lived in ICU. During the one-year hospitalization, the old man's wife repeatedly begged her children to take her to see her, but the old man refused.

Because the old man didn't want the old woman to see her body full of tubes, until one day, the old man took the initiative to ask his wife, but I didn't expect this side to be the last. There are such examples in life. In ICU, an old man in a severe coma even advised his family to give up, but his children still tried their best to continue to treat the elderly.

Even if I give up my job, even if I lose everything and take care of it day and night, I just hope for a miracle. It's a pity that sometimes I insist on it for a year or two and finally I hear that I want to extubate the old man and let him go to heaven.

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ICU will not only witness life and death, but also test human nature.

Sometimes we often encounter the same problem, whether to use invasive measures to prolong the quality of life of patients without hope of cure.

When cancer patients reach the advanced stage, the cancer cells in the body have spread and metastasized, and doctors have no effect on relieving the disease. In some cases, doctors will also advise family members to give up rescue and use palliative care, so that the elderly or patients can leave quietly for no more than five days, but in 90% of cases, family members will listen to the doctor's judgment, but sometimes they can't.

Because they still have unfinished wishes, in the end, the hospital can only maintain the patient's heartbeat and increase the patient's pain, but the living people hope that he can persist in fulfilling his dreams. In such an environment, even if patients can express their wishes, they may not be able to do so.

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So under what circumstances can we consider hospice care?

When the patient reaches a certain situation, the doctor will advise his family to consider hospice care. There are generally three criteria for this situation, so that the patient will not be miserable in the end;

First of all, all the treatments have been tried, and it is confirmed that there is no way to cure the patient's primary disease under the current medical technology.

Secondly, the patient's life span has entered the final stage. The internationally accepted method is less than six months. However, medical institutions have different standards for the number of wards according to their own human facilities, ranging from three months to half a year.

Finally, we must get the full consent of the patients or their families. At this time, can we enter the hospice ward? We have done a lot of hospice care, so that patients and their families can really spend the last period of time, and communication can help them complete it. I hope the patient is awake, not in a shallow coma.

At present, hospice wards and hospice wards have been developed in many parts of the country, and this concept has been accepted by more and more people.

Especially when you see your loved ones with tubes all over your body, you should be more rational at this time.