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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1581796" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>That 'unplugging' thing, is not always what one sees on TV. Especially if the loved one has a self sustaining heartbeat but is on a ventilator to provide oxygen. I went thru this exactly 12 years ago today, with my father. If you have to do it, ask the attending nurse/dr to turn off the monitor or at least the sound and turn the display away from view. Once the ventilator is removed, the heart rate will quickly increase as the heart attempts to pump more blood to feed major organs, like the brain. It takes about 90 seconds for all activity to cease, but will seem like a lifetime as you watch the monitor and you may wonder as I did if we had made a mistake. To this day, I'm not sure we did the right thing but I did not have the final say, my youngest older sister did. I harbor no ill will toward her and my other sister who agreed with her, but if it had been solely up to me, I would have chosen to give it 24-48 hrs, as he had only been on a ventilator for about an hour.</p><p>It was heart wrenching to watch that monitor and the heartrate increase.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1581796, member: 18945"] That 'unplugging' thing, is not always what one sees on TV. Especially if the loved one has a self sustaining heartbeat but is on a ventilator to provide oxygen. I went thru this exactly 12 years ago today, with my father. If you have to do it, ask the attending nurse/dr to turn off the monitor or at least the sound and turn the display away from view. Once the ventilator is removed, the heart rate will quickly increase as the heart attempts to pump more blood to feed major organs, like the brain. It takes about 90 seconds for all activity to cease, but will seem like a lifetime as you watch the monitor and you may wonder as I did if we had made a mistake. To this day, I'm not sure we did the right thing but I did not have the final say, my youngest older sister did. I harbor no ill will toward her and my other sister who agreed with her, but if it had been solely up to me, I would have chosen to give it 24-48 hrs, as he had only been on a ventilator for about an hour. It was heart wrenching to watch that monitor and the heartrate increase. [/QUOTE]
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