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Nightingale, Florence,
203

Nuland, SherwinB,
196

7
,
235
,
241

nuns,
243

4
,
308
,
324

nurses

agency,
293

and hierarchy,
23

4

and incurable conditions,
136

7

and laying-out,
160

presence at death,
83

4

training reforms,
203

5
,
211

nurses homes,
30

nursing auxiliaries,
137
,
205

6

Nursing Times,
66
,
238,
257

oedema,
230

1
,
235
,
382

oestrogen,
90

old age,
45

9
,
329

active,
46
,
48

as cause of death,
5
,
7
,
45

and resuscitation,
252
,
258
,
352

3

old man’s friend,
196
,
308

On Death and Dying,
51,
59

60
,
67

oncotic pressure,
382

Ontario,
343

opoid metabolites,
383

Oral Feeding Difficulties and Dilemmas,
199—200

oro-pharyngeal airway,
339

Orthodox Church,
97
,
157

osteoporosis,
320

oxygen,
217

palliative care (specialism),
66,
368—
395

pancreas,
217
,
229

paraldehyde,
23

4
,
28

paralysis,
195

creeping,
200

1
,
279

psychosomatic,
54

paramedics,
246
,
248

9
,
252
,
256
,
357

67
,
370

training and education,
357

9

Parkinson’s disease,
278
,
366

pelvic fractures,
41

2
,
104

5
,
307

phlebitis,
151

physiotherapy,
178
,
188
,
190
,
231
,
293

pneumonia,
196
,
229
,
308
,
353

poisoning,
338
,
354

Poland,
51

3

police,
249

population, ageing,
194

post-cardiac arrest syndrome,
344

post-mortems,
249

post-resuscitation disease,
369

potassium citrate,
90
,
94

powers of attorney,
352
,
354

primary progressive aphasia,
278

private hospitals and clinics,
206
,
208
,
210
,
212

progesterone,
90

Project 2000,
204

5

prostatectomy,
90

1

public access defibrillation,
338

public expectations,
242
,
371

pulmonary oedema,
382

pupillary light response,
345

Queen Alexandra Royal Army

Nursing Corps,
239

Quinlan, Karen Ann,
345

6

radiotherapy,
81

2
,
84
,
90

1
, in,
120
,
143

4

as evidence of cancer,
130

1
,
133

5
,
139

41

as placebo,
124

5

Ratski, Mrs,
9

42

Reading,
10
,
118
,
136
,
209

Recognition of Life Extinct

(ROLE),
256
,
363

refugees,
51

2

resuscitation,
197
,
211
,
218

19
,
222

59
,
275

6
,
330

1
,
337

56

ABC guidelines,
255
,
338

9

and advanced directives,
354

6
,
365

6

and age discrimination,
252
,
258
,
353

and Allow a Natural Death

(AND) procedure,
348

9

and ambulance services,
253

7
,
359

61
,
365

7

cessation of,
343

4
,
353

4

and choice,
368

76

developments in,
237

8
,
337

40
,
356

and DNAR orders,
242

3
,
251
,
253

6
,
258
,
346

8
,
356
,
360

1
,
365

7
,
372
,
374
,376

and electric shocks,
238

9
,
241

and medical history,
353

4

and mental capacity,
243
,
351

2
,
354
,
360
,
360
,
357

mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,
237
,
240
,
330
,338

open heart resuscitation,
222

5
,
230
,
238
,
338

and palliative care,
255
,
257
,
361

and Recognition of Life Extinct (ROLE),
256
,
363

and relatives,
354

5
,
370

and ‘right to die’ case,
345

6

success rates,
341

5
,
356
,
369

70

Resuscitation Council (UK),
257
,
338

9
,
341
,
344
,
355

rheumatoid arthritis,
309

Right to Die, The,
117

Right to Die case,
345

6

rigor mortis,
255

Roberts, Elias,
90

100

Rosen, Shirley,
269

Royal Berkshire Hospital,
11
,
64
,
240

Royal College of Nursing

(RCN),
204

6
,
210
,
238
,
243
,
257

Royal College of Physicians,
199

200

Royal Free Hospital,
81
,
90
, III,
129

St Christopher’s Hospice,
65

7

St John’s Ambulance,
251

St Joseph’s Hospice,
62

3

St Nicholas Hospice,
257

St Paul,
106

St Thomas’s Hospital,
62

3

Salmon Report,
203

Saunders, Dame Cicely,
62

7
,

Second World War,
22
,
51

2
,
228
,
280
,
316
,337

self-preservation,
286

septicaemia,
42
,
196

Shipman, Dr Harold,
310

shock,
20

anaphylactic,
344
,
354

surgical,
91

shoulders, broken,
319

Silvester, Dr,
237

Socrates,
326

speech, and human communication,
279

speech therapy,
189

starvation,
196
,
281

stroke,
46
,
48
,
170

1
,
189
,
359
,
366

and rehabilitation,
180
,
188

9

stroke patients,
165

91

suffering,
308

9

suicide,
140

1
,
313

15
,
327

Switzerland,
51

5
,
319
,
323

5

syphilis,
52

syringe driver,
383

television,
146

8
,
251
,
342
,
369

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