PNPG CPEU Survey: Providing Compassionate Care (Enduring)
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Question 1: The ethical principle used in decision making around parents or surrogate decision makers choosing to withhold or withdraw medically provided fluids or nutrition is called:
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The best-interest standard
Autonomy
Distributive justice
Truth Telling
Question 2: Ethical situations where it is permissible to withhold or withdraw medically provided fluids or nutrition in a pediatric patient include all of the following except:
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A 3 month old child with anencephaly
A 15 year old with metastatic progressive sarcoma with worsening abdominal ascites
A newborn with HLHS going home on hospice
A 5 year old with moderate CP with abdominal pain with feeds whose family does not want them to be in pain
Question 3: Witholding or withdrawing medically provided fluids or nutrition at the end of life may actually cause a patient to feel better due to the release of:?
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Estrogen
Endorphins
Melatonin
Leu-enkephalin
Question 4: Providing medical fluids or nutrition at the end of life can cause which of the following symptoms:
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Dyspnea
Nausea & vomiting
Skin breakdown
All of the above
Question 5: Enteral or parenteral nutrition is not recommended during which state of cancer cachexia
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Precachexia
Cachexia
Refractory cachexia
Question 6: If there is any concern about withholding or withdrawing medically provided fluids or nutrition in a pediatric patient, an ethics consult should be places.
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True
False
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