Hospital to end life support [View All]

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Why hasn't the MSM picked this up yet, I wonder. Since we had Schiavo news 24/7....

link: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3157837

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A San Antonio hospital has decided to withdraw life support from the Friendswood invalid whose family successfully fought a Houston facility with the same plans last month.

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Spiro Nikolouzos' case attracted significant attention in Houston in March, the same time the Terri Schiavo drama reached its climax. It shone a light on a seldom-used Texas law that allows hospitals to remove a patient from life support 10 days after notifying family of its intentions. The family has that time to find an alternative facility.

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On March 20, 19 days after St. Luke's notified Nikolouzos' family it planned to remove him from life support, the family transferred him to Avalon Place, a San Antonio long-term nursing home whose owner cited right-to-life beliefs as the reason for accepting him. Less than two weeks later, Southeast Baptist admitted Nikolouzos after he developed pneumonia.

There, Jannette Nikolouzos said, her husband fought off the pneumonia, but repeated problems with his feeding tube caused his doctors to remove it and provide his nutrition and medication intravenously instead. Doctors soon recommended discontinuing treatment and on April 20, the hospital's ethics committee agreed.