In the short clip about consciousness, what area of the brain is responsible for consciousness ? 

A patient who has been in a motor vehicle crash is in a vegetative state, is on life support in the ICU, and clearly will not survive.  Although the doctor tells the patient’s family that continued treatment is futile; the family insists that the patient receive all possible care and refuses to make the patient a DNR or remove life support.  The doctor explains that the patient will never be able to have any meaningful interactions.  Despite the doctor’s grim prognosis, the patient’s family says that they would rather visit the patient in the hospital than in the graveyard.  What is the crux of this ethical dilemma (in essence, what is causing the ethical conflict)? 

Which of the following statements is not correct about Neurological Death (“Brain Death”)?

When can a vegetative state be considered permanent? 

Your patient is a sixty year old women who has two adult children. Since her divorce twenty years ago, she lived with her boyfriend. The women’s children live out of state and are unavailable to make decisions. The patient’s long term boyfriend is present at the bedside and insist that he and the patient are married under common law because they have lived together for twenty years. The patient is in a medically include coma and needs a simple but urgent procedure which requires informed consent. The medical team is unable to reach the patient’s children. Is it ethically and legally acceptable to allow the patient’s boyfriend to give consent on for the procedure? 

In Indiana, surrogate decision makers acting on behalf of the patient must make all decisions regarding the patient’s care using which standard?

In the even of a dispute between an incapacitated patient’s spouse and adult child about the plan of care, what action must the family take in order to legally specify one ultimate decision maker? 

An adult patient is incapacitated and unable to make his/her own medical decisions. The patient has not completed a health care power of attorney or health care representative form. Which of the following people are eligible to make medical decisions for the patient under current Indiana law? 

When does the class meet in the classroom?

What is the preferred method of communicating with the instructor?