With the Liverpool Care Pathway, they found both to be true. In the Wikipedia page on the LCP they say 'Many decisions were taken in ward settings without the oversight of experienced doctors of medicine. In almost half of the cases neither patient nor family were consulted or informed that it had been decided to place the patient on the LCP.'
Much of the social media talk about midazolam appears very black and white, and as a result people are even looking back at the palliative care given to family members prior to Covid and viewing it with a new perspective and suspicion, even levelling accusations of euthanasia. Some of the stories shared sound like their loved ones received good palliative care, using end of life drugs appropriately.
It would be in all our interests to seek transpacency about decisions made on the back of the new protocols. It is hard to see we can continue to use midazolam/morphine in palliative care without an open public inquiry on this matter.
Most people do not die from covid, it is not a terminal disease and should not be treated as such. To administer heavy sedation, analgesia and cough suppressants to someone who is breathless from an infection will depress respirations and is giving that individual a probable death sentence, a blanket protocol was put in place and given the stamp of authority by NICE which many doctors and nurses followed religiously without question.
With the Liverpool Care Pathway, they found both to be true. In the Wikipedia page on the LCP they say 'Many decisions were taken in ward settings without the oversight of experienced doctors of medicine. In almost half of the cases neither patient nor family were consulted or informed that it had been decided to place the patient on the LCP.'
Much of the social media talk about midazolam appears very black and white, and as a result people are even looking back at the palliative care given to family members prior to Covid and viewing it with a new perspective and suspicion, even levelling accusations of euthanasia. Some of the stories shared sound like their loved ones received good palliative care, using end of life drugs appropriately.
It would be in all our interests to seek transpacency about decisions made on the back of the new protocols. It is hard to see we can continue to use midazolam/morphine in palliative care without an open public inquiry on this matter.
Most people do not die from covid, it is not a terminal disease and should not be treated as such. To administer heavy sedation, analgesia and cough suppressants to someone who is breathless from an infection will depress respirations and is giving that individual a probable death sentence, a blanket protocol was put in place and given the stamp of authority by NICE which many doctors and nurses followed religiously without question.