Question

According to the text, an example of the need for advance directives occurred with 26-year-old Terri Schiavo, whose eating disorder caused her heart to stop. She did not have an advance directive and her husband was identified as her proxy when she fell into a coma. Doctors had told Terri's husband that Terri was diagnosed as:

Answer 1

Hypoxiz ischemic encephalopathy.

Terri is a 41 year old woman who was facing a problem of lack of oxygen to brain. She was diagnosed with Hypoxiz ischemic encephalopathy, a condition where brain does not receives oxygen or blood flow for a period of time. She died in 1990 due to Cardiac arrest.

She went into comma due to brain disorder disease and doctors served her food through inserting feeding tube. There were many rehabilitation effects made to bring her back to life but none of the physicians were successful in their attempt.

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