The shortage is not unique: dozens of drugs are on the F.D.A.'s list of medication shortages, including injectable anesthesia agents, pain medications, penicillin, feeding and hydration solutions, heart disease drugs, and even simple products like sterile water.
--Nationally, cancer patients were more likely to receive "aggressive life-sustaining treatment" -- such as CPR and artificial breathing, feeding and hydration -- during the last weeks of their lives in Los Angeles (18percentt) and Orange County (17percentt), as compared with Minneapolis (4percentt), Des Moines, Iowa (5percentt) and Seattle (6 percent).
Important issues such as problems with feeding or hydration or delays to patient care and treatment may be less likely to be readily identified as patient safety issues which staff know they are required to report.
The GMC also advises that discussions surrounding end-of-life care, including issues such as tube-feeding, hydration and resuscitation, which can all cause avoidable distress, be started with those who are terminally ill well in advance of their dying days.
It involves...er...um...rectal feeding or rectal hydration, without any documented medical need.
The specific training needs of health care assistants were thought to include: knowledge concerning suitable positioning, feeding, swallowing and hydration.
She was able to breathe on her own but relied on a feeding and hydration tube to live.
In January 2009, one of Barack Obama's first acts as president was to issue an executive order banning the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which also included, among other methods, rectal feeding and hydration, sleep deprivation and sexual humiliation.
Mine, always in my purse, is as unambiguous as my doctor's suggestions can make it: "If I am incapacitated without hope of meaningful recovery, I want to be treated for comfort only, without artificial life support, C.P.R., antibiotics or artificial feeding or hydration".
There have been high-profile hunger strikes around the country at immigration detention centers in the past, and non-consensual feeding and hydration has been authorized by judges in court orders.
