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PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS WRITERS POST, 100 words minimum.
Hi class due to this being a very sensitive topic this is only my opinion I am against keeping someone alive in the case of prolonged unconsciousness. A person in a coma while have prolonged unconscious and be unresponsive to their environment and will not respond to painful stimuli. Someone in a PVS may awake and sleep they may still open there eyes, make sounds or move but show no awareness of surroundings. Lastly a person in MCS may have periods where they can communicate or respond to commands such as moving a finger or blinking an eye when asked. When someone has a traumatic brain injury due to being in a severe car accident, stroke or an infection the brain loses oxygen and is usually pronounced brain dead. People are kept on ventilators due to not being able to breathe on their own; nasogastric tubes or GTubes since with are usually NPO there is a tube placed in the abdomen to help with feeding to provide nutrients. I do not believe someone should be on machines to prolong their life. I feel if they are pronounced “brain dead” someone should not have to suffer being hooked to machines for quality of life. As a licensed nurse I seen patient’s ventilators being removed and breathing on their own however, to not have that quality of life to be able to get up and walk around, feed yourself or even put on a shirt is not very promising. The psychology effects family deals with is a lot of regret for example, there loved one is in a vegetative state and they have to slowly move on and as time passes they have that constant regret “am I spending enough time with my loved one.” Am I moving on with my life and not physically being there. During COVID families were restricted to visit loved ones even though they were in a vegetative state and a lot of families felt the helpless and not being in control of their loved one. While reading the article “ Bringing back the Unconscious” and reading about the research with the medication Ambien and how studies show people showing signs of responses to painful tactile and slowly becoming awake, open my eyes that maybe someone could possibly awake from a coma. However, I do believe the medication studies could be a false promise especially for people who believe it could wake there loved one up. As a nurse I’ve had a patient who got into a motorcycle accident and was in a coma, eyes closed unable to move on their own but was able to breathe on their own, family did insist on keeping them alive and was not ready to let go. This patient has been in a vegetative state for years and being the nurse everyday taking care of this patient made me realize I could not prolong my life and made me against keeping someone alive with no brain activity.