In the Midst of Life (59 page)

Glasgow Coma Scale,
345

glottis,
280

Goteborg,
342

Gravesend,
254

Griffiths Report,
203
—
4

Guedel airway,
339

guilt, and bereavement,
161

Hackett, David,
150

also
Appendix I 337—356

Harlow, Wilson,
91

Hart, David,
50
,
145
,
193

Havel, Vaclav,
127

Hawking, Professor Stephen,
278

healthcare assistants,
137
,
205
—
13

salaries,
208
—
9
,
213

heart attacks,
4
,
29
,
46
,
48
,
157
,
218
—
19
,
234
,
246
—
7
,
250
,
272
—
3
,
275
,
337
,
346
,
366

heart block,
340

heart disease, and mortality rates,
356

heart failure,
196
,
234
,
300
,
302

acute heart failure,
272

congestive heart failure,
216
—
17
,
228
—
9

heart surgery,
337

heartburn,
129

hemiplegia,
175
—
6

heparin,
217

hiatus hernias,
129

high blood pressure,
170

Hinduism,
56
,
332

Hippocratic oath,
309

home defibrillation,
338

home helps,
295

hope,
139
—
40

hospice movement,
63
,
65
—
7

hospices,
159
,
161
,
348

hospital dramas,
251
,
342
,
369

hospitals

in 1950s,
30

hospitals—
contd

and death,
48
—
9
,
146
,
161
,
244
,312

geriatric,
292
—
4

and hospital-acquired infections,
308

and resuscitation,
340
—
2
,
348
,
351
,
355
—
6

How We Die,
196—
7
,
235
—
7

Huntingdon’s chorea,
278

Hyem, Dr Conrad,
68
—
79
,
215
—
32
,238

hypercalcemia,
382

hyperglycaemia,
217

hypothermia,
344
,
354

hysterectomies,
111
,
120

immigrants,
210
—
11

incineration,
253

incontinence,
4
,
196
,
308

Independent Mental Capacity Advisor,
374

insulin,
73
,
75
,
217
,
230

Integrated Care Pathway,
283

Intensive Care National

Audit & Research Centre

(ICNARC),
341

intensive care units,
16
,
238

Internal Cardiac Defibrillators

(ICDs),
343

International Liaison

Committee on

Resuscitation,
344

International Voluntary Service

for Peace,
53

intraosseous cannulation,
357

intravenous cannulation,
357

irritable bowel,
309

Jehovah’s Witnesses,
209

Jesus Christ,
326

Jewish law,
332

Jews,
51
—
2
,
73
—
4
,
217
—
18
,
288

Johns Hopkins Medical

Research Faculty,
237

Joint Royal Colleges

Ambulance Liaison

Committee (JRCALC)

guidelines,
253
—
5
,
360

kidneys,
217
,
229
,
236

dialysis,
200
,
347

failure,
196
,
228
,
232

infections,
41
,
48

Korean War,
337

Ku Klux Klan,
61

Kubler-Ross, Dr Elisabeth,
51
—
61
,
67

laparotomy,
13
,
129
,
133

Laryngeal Mask Airway

(LMA),
339

Latvia,
9
,
13
,
37

Lawrence, Philip,
163
—
4

laying-out,
160

Leah,
285
—
306

leukaemia,
56
,
58

Lewis, John,
278
—
84

life after death,
110

litigation, fear of,
186
—
8
,
242
,
258
,
373

liver,
217
,
228
—
9

Liverpool Care Pathway,
161
,
283
,
371
,
376

living wills,
251
,
256
,
258
,
354

livor mortis,
253

London Hospital,
239

love,
106
—
10
,
125

lumbar punctures,
171
,
182

lungs,
217
,
236

embolism,
290
—
1
,
302
,
306

terminal failure,
3
46

Macmillan Nurses,
66,
162,
279
,
284

Majdanek death camp,
53

Manhattan State Hospital,
54

manual cardiac defibrillation,
357

Marie Curie Hospital,
81
—
144

Massen, Louise,
254
—
7
,
357
—
67

mastectomy,
82
,
318

matrons,
24
,
203

medical students,
54

memory loss,
287

Mental Capacity Act,
243
,
354
,
372

mersaryl,
217

Merton, Mrs,
102
—
5
,
107
—
10

Methodist Homes for the Aged,
197
—
8

Mohammed, Prophet,
326

monastic offices,
163

morticians,
156
,
160

Moslems,
112
—
14
,
332

motor neurone disease,
278

Mount St Helens,
260
—
9

mouth care,
99
,
382

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
277

MRSA,
291
,
307
—
8

multiple sclerosis,
278

music therapy,
258

myocardial infarction,
272
,
358

naso-gastric tubes,
199
—
200
,
281
—
2
,
381

naso-jejunostomy,
381

National Council for Palliative

Care (NCPC),
254
,
365
,
374

National End of Life Care

Programme,
161

National Health Service,
30
—
31
,
75
,
293
,
301

Gold Standard Framework,
161
,
342
,
371
—
3
,
376

and hospice movement,
65
—
6

National Health Service

Training Directorate

(NHSTD),
357

National Service Framework for Older People,
258

National Vocational

Qualifications (NVQs),
207
—
8
,
210
,212—
13

near-death experiences,
106
—
7
,
270

neuro-muscular disease,
258
,
278

New York Times,
166