2/Our upcoming On Becoming a Healer guest consulted on a patient who was ✅chemically paralyzed ✅on a ventilator ✅receiving adrenaline-like medicines for his blood pressure, and ✅shackled to the bed How could he run? What's our role as doctors https://
One of the docs I used to work with (and love dearly) wrote this reflection last year: https://t.co/LB7j243Jz5
Recommended reading: https://t.co/ytvG7oM5Eu
AMAZING GRACE…
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“There is no medical or legal justification for a patient who is sedated, paralyzed, and unable to breathe to still lie in bondage.” And yet, we still keep doing this to people.
This hurts my heart. Why are humans so cruel?
RT @DrNovisky: "I saw a familiar set of monitors & a patient, lying prone, attached to a ventilator. Then I saw the shackle...The force bei…
RT @DrNovisky: "I saw a familiar set of monitors & a patient, lying prone, attached to a ventilator. Then I saw the shackle...The force bei…
"I saw a familiar set of monitors & a patient, lying prone, attached to a ventilator. Then I saw the shackle...The force being applied to control the unconscious man seemed disproportionate to his ability to escape or harm others." https://t.co/VvzKMcM
So glad to see a critical voice push back against the racist, inhumane and potentially life-threatening practice of shackling patients - some states now ban/regulate this practice - ALL MUST.
Restraining unconscious individuals on a ventilator with #shackles is inhumane (& incredibly useless) New @JournalGIM Healing Arts perspective by @PittGIM Dr. Bansal & our own @haber_md