{"id":1468,"date":"2014-05-16T17:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T21:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2014-05-16T17:27:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T21:27:54","slug":"high-risk-for-people-with-disabilities-in-intensive-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/high-risk-for-people-with-disabilities-in-intensive-care\/","title":{"rendered":"High risk for people with disabilities in intensive care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often think about the recent news that <a href=\"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/2014\/04\/involuntary-euthanasia-for-intensive-care-in-belgium\/\">intensive care  physicians in Belgium say that involuntary euthanasia is not only acceptable,  but desirable<\/a>. It is one of the most recent elements in the discussion about  euthanasia. There are several aspects of this discussion that, once put  together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, scare me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Healthcare providers can have a much more negative  perception of quality of life after an injury or an illness than the people  actually experience. Indeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annemergmed.com\/article\/S0196-0644%2894%2970318-3\/fulltext\">only 17% of emergency health care providers  believe they would have a good quality of life after a severe spinal cord  injury. Yet, 86% of people with such an injury say that their quality of life  is equal or better than before their accident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What will be the impact of this negative perception of  healthcare providers towards patients that are at risk of a significant  disability? These intensive care physicians will decide whether a patient  continues to live or not. And this decision will be influenced by their  perception of disability.<\/p>\n<p>I would not like to need to spend time in an Intensive Care  unit in Belgium. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often think about the recent news that intensive care  physicians in Belgium say that involuntary euthanasia is not only acceptable,  but desirable. It is one of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}