This is what is happening, in the world’s ELDEST society! Intubate or NOT to intubate, that, is the question, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
In the Past, the Medical Profession Believed, that Intubation Can Help Prevent Inflammation of the Lungs, and this Belief Had, Affected the Families of the Patients; the Statistic Showed, that There are about 200,000 People Who are Intubated Each and Every Year, Five Times Higher than in Japan, and the Newest Research Showed, that Intubation Won’t Reduce the Risk of Pneumonia Caused by Inhalation, and Some of the Hospitals with the Social Welfare Groups Pushed Forth the “No Intubation” Lifestyles.
The Head of the National Health Insurances Agency Lee stated, that the medical professionals should think on behalf of the patients, what is best for them. Pulling off the tubes isn’t done by the doctors alone, there would be a need of team of medical professionals, but he’d supported the “No Intubation” beliefs, and would think again, on whether or not to allot more resources, to help the medical professions to advocate the “no intubation” way more.
does this look comfortable???
There was an estimate of 26,000 who were intubated back in 2017. The physician, Lin, from the Department of Welfare Sanitations’ Hospital in Tainan pointed out, that people in this country normally believed, that once the patient is out of the acute stages, they can be taken off the tubes, but, the real estimates showed, that once the tubes had been installed, there’s a lower than twenty-person of patients being discharged from the hospitals.
Lin said, the tubes aren’t comfortable, and as the tubes are being changed, there would be, injuries, and the caretakers, in order to prevent the patients from pulling out the tubes would normally keep them under suspensions, and the stomach acid would rise back up which would cause ulcers, and, the patients would be given antacids, which will cause them to get infected with the inhaling type of pneumonia even more.
Or maybe it’s because of a combination of these reasons, it’d caused argument in the families, whether or not to intubate the elderly adults. The famous romance writer, Chong Yao had had an argument on whether or not her husband should be intubated with her husband’s children. The patients’ rights act that was signed a short while back allowed the members of the public to set up the wills ahead of time, and one of the items was whether or not they wanted to be intubated, to reduce the conflicts.
The studies from the researches in Japan and U.S. showed, that intubation long-term would not be for the benefits of the patients. Actually, those who needed the feeding tubes, other than having the feeding tubes installed in, they could also have the stomach surgeries, or install the smaller tubes into the nostrils, or have the endoscopy opening, and then, getting a tube directly connecting to their stomachs.
“The long-term care facilities and hospitals in Japan almost never considers intubation, so how come, there are so many elderly patients intubated here?” Chen admitted, that the tubes, under the “conditions of what is seemingly safe” allowed the patients to have the needed nutrients to live off, but this small tube had, caused the patients’ to lack the quality of ife, “it’d taken away the point of living almost completely”. The foundation only a year ago, had pushed for the “no intubation way” with the city hospitals, to help the patients die with more dignity.
He’d said, that people in this country disliked surgeries, but there were more intances where intubations were, performed, the Japanese believed, that “carrying a tube around isn’t good looking”, so most would choose to have a whole in thie stomachs, and the holes are covered up by the clothes they wear. He’d met a patient, who was once very outgoing, but after he had a feeding tube installed into him, he’d refused to go outside, “I feel like a dog, I don’t want to embarass myself by going out.”
“Once the right to chew one’s own food is taken away, being alive only brings us pain.”, the head nurse of the Lien-Shun Nursing Home told, that having an appetite is what make life worth living, the Japanese method of feeding and no intubation tried to help the elderly patients to live until their last “bite” of life.
or would you prefer this???
And so, this is from the angle of the patients, they should be allowed, to die with their dignity intact, instead of having a feeding tube installed into their bodies, to help them keep on living, but, when it comes down to what mattered most, the families usually would choose to keep the elderly alive, instead of letting them die with their dignities intact!