Question

landmark historical cases: a court allows withdrawal of treatment for an incompetent patient using a \best interest\ standard. which case does this reflect?
saikewicz
quinlan
cobbs v. grant
schloendorff
a patient has suffered severe oxygen loss. they open their eyes and have sleep - wake cycles but show no awareness of surroundings. the condition has lasted 3 months.
identify the patients condition category:
curative illness
terminal illness
brain death
persistent vegetative state
cardiac death

Explanation:

First Sub - Question (Landmark Historical Cases)

The case of Quinlan (Karen Ann Quinlan) involved a court allowing the withdrawal of treatment for an incompetent patient using the "best interest" standard. Saikewicz was about treatment for a mentally incompetent patient with cancer, Cobbs v. Grant was about informed consent in medical practice, and Schloendorff was about the right to self - determination in medical treatment but not the "best interest" standard for withdrawing treatment for an incompetent patient.

A patient with severe oxygen loss, who opens their eyes, has sleep - wake cycles but no awareness of surroundings for 3 months fits the definition of a Persistent Vegetative State. Curative illness is one that can be cured, terminal illness is one with a poor prognosis and limited time to live, brain death is the irreversible loss of brain function (no brain activity), and cardiac death is death due to heart failure.

Answer:

B. Quinlan

Second Sub - Question (Patient's Condition Category)