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Perspectives on practicing procedures on the newly dead.

Kathleen S Oman1, John David Armstrong, Martha Stoner

  • 1Department of Emergency Medicine, The Center for Bioethics and Humanities, and the School of Nursing at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80231, USA. kathy.oman@uch.edu

Academic Emergency Medicine : Official Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
|August 3, 2002
PubMed
Summary

Most older adults find practicing lifesaving skills on the newly dead acceptable, but believe obtaining consent is essential. This highlights a public desire for transparency in medical training involving deceased individuals.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Bioethics
  • Gerontology

Background:

  • Invasive procedures are vital for emergency and critical care training.
  • Training often occurs on newly deceased patients without explicit consent.
  • This practice lacks public and professional transparency.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore older adults' views on practicing lifesaving procedures on the newly dead.
  • To ascertain older adults' opinions on the necessity of consent for such practices.

Main Methods:

  • Exploratory, descriptive study design.
  • Utilized a seven-item Likert-type instrument with open-ended questions.
  • Collected data from 100 adults in two metropolitan areas.
Keywords:
Death and EuthanasiaEmpirical ApproachProfessional Patient Relationship

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Main Results:

  • 54% of participants found practicing lifesaving skills on the newly dead acceptable.
  • 80% believed consent for using newly deceased bodies for skill practice is necessary.
  • Organ donation and autopsy preference correlated with acceptance of skill practice; cremation preference correlated with less need for consent.

Conclusions:

  • Older adults generally support the use of the newly dead for practicing lifesaving skills.
  • There is a strong consensus among older adults that consent is a necessary requirement for these practices.