Muerte digna o ensañamiento terapéutico: una reflexión para profesionales de la salud

Abstract

The company or accompany during human suffering becomes a challenge to bioethics reflection, due a very old age, the illness severity, a terminal condition, and the family abandon of patients in these situations, and therefore, also for the dilemma of the usefulness of some procedures and the consequent attitude of the nursing professional. The core of these problems is the conscious of nursing care and the nurse-patient relationship within a terminal illness situation (SET). This is a case study product of the practice of nursing specialized on critical state adults students, applying the Nursing Attention Process based on the Virginia Henderson’s 14 needs on a person carrying the Cor Pulmonale. The object to be analyzed is the clinical evolution of information registered following the case study methodology. The theoretical frame and later analysis is centered on the use of therapeutically enragement concepts and the nursing role in the frame that gives the contemporaneous bioethical reflection about the right to a honorable death.