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Q: Patients and their family members often want to know how long a person who has cancer will continue to live. It’s normal to want to be prepared for the future. But predicting how long someone will continue to live is a hard question to answer. And, if they develop uncontrolled symptoms in the last week, they can still receive Palliative Sedation. Is VSED ethical? Is it suicide? It is not suicide. If the goal is to alleviate or prevent suffering, it is considered ethically acceptable for someone who is capable of making an informed decision. VSED must be distinguished from the naturally occurring loss of appetite and interest in food or water that occurs at the end of life. Last Updated: Thursday 14 July 2016 09:58. What is VSED (Voluntary Stopping Eating & Drinking)? This refers to the decision by a patient to stop eating food and drinking liquids when they have a terminal or life-limiting disease, so that their death can be hastened (and therefore their dying will not be prolonged). Withdrawal from friends and family: 1  People often focus inward during the last weeks of life. 2  They may lose interest in things they used to enjoy, such as favorite TV shows, friends, or pets. 3  Caregivers can let the patient know they are there for support. Why would someone stop eating and drinking? We know that up to 35% of patients in hospice programs have severe pain in the final week of life and 25% describe having shortness of breath that is “unbearable”. With such uncontrolled symptoms, they might say “I’m tired of this and I just want to go to sleep and not wakeup”. How long you can get hospice care. 1  You can get hospice care for two 90-day benefit periods, followed by an unlimited number of 60-day benefit periods. 2  You have the right to change your hospice provider once during each benefit period. How long you can get hospice care. Hospice care is for people with a life expectancy of 6 months or less (if the illness runs its normal course). If you live longer than 6 months, you can still get hospice care, as long as the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor recertifies that you’re terminally ill. 1  You can get hospice care for two 90-day benefit periods, followed by an unlimited number of 60-day benefit periods. If your health improves or your illness goes into remission, you may no longer need hospice care. You always have the right to stop hospice care at any time. If you choose to stop hospice care, you'll be asked to sign a form that includes the date your care will end. At the start of each benefit period after the first 90-day period, the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor must recertify that you’re terminally ill, so you can continue to get hospice care. If you live longer than 6 months, you can still get hospice care, as long as the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor recertifies that you’re terminally ill. You can get hospice care for two 90-day benefit periods, followed by an unlimited number of 60-day benefit periods. Query: how long does hospice care last when someone is not eating

A: Hospice care is for people with a life expectancy of 6 months or less. If you live longer than 6 months, you can still get hospice care, as long as the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor recertifies that you’re terminally ill.
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Q: Click on a circle in the chart to view Asparagus birth and death records An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. asparagus definition, meaning, what is asparagus: a plant with pale green, juicy stems that are cooked and eaten as a vegetable: . Learn more. Find out where people with the family name Asparagus lived before coming to the United States. Using Ancestry, you can search through passenger arrival records, naturalization records, border crossings, emigration records, passport applications, and even convict transportation records. Click on a circle in the chart to view Asparagus birth and death records. An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more. Slice thin, fresh raw asparagus and add to a salad, or serve whole spears alongside your favorite dip. Matches well with bread crumbs, butter, cheese sauce, chervil, crab, cream, eggs, garlic, hollandaise sauce, horseradish, lemon, mayonnaise, morels, mushrooms, mustard, nutmeg, olive oil, onion, orange, Parmesan cheese, parsley, pepper, rosemary, shallots, soy, vinaigrette The classical Latin form of the word is attested in English from mid-16c., but was limited at first to herbalists and botanists; the common form from 17c.-19c. was the folk-etymologized variant sparrowgrass, during which time asparagus had an air of stiffness and pedantry [John Walker, Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, 1791]. asparagus (n.) plant cultivated for its edible shoots, late 14c., aspergy; late Old English sparage, from Latin asparagus (in Medieval Latin often sparagus), from Greek asparagos / aspharagos, which is of uncertain origin; perhaps with euphonic a-+ PIE root *sp(h)er(e)g-to spring up, but Beekes suggests it is rather a substrate word, based in part on the p/ph variation. Until 1900, rail encourages the production and export of tomatoes, peas, beans, onions, asparagus and cauliflower plus artichokes and melons in a few areas. From Wikipedia Asparagus (from the Persian word asparag, meaning a sprout), are slim green spears, often tinged with a bit of purple at the tip. Europeans are more familiar with white asparagus which is grown completely underground to prevent it from becoming green. There is also a purple variety called Viola. Asparagus plants usually live 8 to 10 years, and the size of the asparagus spear is relative to the age of the plant; in other words, the thicker the vegetable, the older the plant. View all Asparagus ancestors in the SSDI Asparagus Family Occupations Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Asparagus ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social and economic status. Query: asparagus meaning

A: Asparagus is a plant with pale green, juicy stems that are cooked and eaten as a vegetable.
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Q: An example of titration using phenolphthalein is the titration of vinegar, which is technically acetic acid. When titrating acetic acid, a titrating solution containing a base—normally sodium hydroxide—is added to the titrand's solution, which contains phenolphthalein (the indicator) and acetic acid (the acidic titrand). And so we can do our calculation here. So we can take 0.000844, and we can divide that by 0.0200, and we get for our answer here 0.0422 molar. All right, so the concentration of HCl is equal to 0.0422 molar, and we are finally done, right? Just a tiny amount of an impurity in a drug could cause a great deal of harm to a patient. Samples of chemicals that are synthesised must be checked for purity. This is often done by carrying out a titration. A titration is used to measure the volume of one solution that exactly reacts with another solution. Steps of titration. A titration is carried out using a number of steps: If the sample is a solid, it is weighed using an accurate balance, and then dissolved to make up a known volume of solution (usually 100cm3). A pipette is used to measure accurately a volume of this solution - for example, 10cm3. The Titration Experiment Titration is a general class of experiment where a known property of one solution is used to infer an unknown property of another solution. In acid-base chemistry, we often use titration to determine the pH of a certain solution. A setup for the titration of an acid with a base is shown in : Figure %: A titration setup 1 At the equivalence point of a titration, an exactly equivalent amount of titrant has been added to the sample. The experimental point at which the completion of the reaction is marked by some signal is called the end point. In Lab Manual CPAP Titration •Optimal CPAP titration –Reduces RDI < 5/hour for at least 15 minutes –Minimum SaO 2 >90% –Supine REM sleep not continuously interrupted by arousals or awakenings –All at the selected “optimal pressure” The endpoint mode represents the classical titration procedure: the titrant is added until the end of the. reaction is observed, e.g., by a colour change of an indicator. With an automatic titrator, the sample is titrated until a predefined measurement value is reached, e.g. pH = 8.2 or E = 100 mV. Blank Titration. A blank titration is carried out by titrating a fixed and known concentration of titrant into a solvent with zero analyte. The only difference from the regular titration is the absence of analyte. Scout Titration. 1  Use a pipet to deliver a known amount of the analyte to the appropriate container (usually an Erlenmeyer flask) which has been cleaned and rinsed with distilled water. Members of the sleep team will calibrate the CPAP during a CPAP titration study. The testing process involves the fitting of a CPAP mask and air pressure. Find a Sleep Center Query: how is titration done?

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A titration is carried out using a number of steps: If the sample is a solid, it is weighed using an accurate balance, and then dissolved to make up a known volume of solution. A pipette is used to measure accurately a volume of this solution - for example, 10cm3.
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