Unresponsive by emergency medical technicians

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A patient was admitted 15 days ago with an intracranial bleed. The patient was found unresponsive by emergency medical technicians who were called to the home by a family member. After initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the patient had a heart rate but needed ventilator support and was transported to the hospital and placed on a mechanical ventilator. The cardiac status is unimpaired, but the patient is flaccid, is nonresponsive with an altered electroencephalograph, and has consistently failed weaning from the ventilator. The family is requesting the patient be removed from the ventilator and allowed to die. The provider is reluctant to remove the ventilator, and the family's spiritual minister concurs with the provider. Which option does the nurse have in this situation? Refer the family to social work for counseling Encourage the family to change physicians Refer the situation to the hospital ethics committee Support the provider's decisions, telling the family that the provider is working in the patient's best interest.

Reference no: EM133689409

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