Posted on 02/11/2009 3:18:48 PM PST by wagglebee
Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- The log from the medical center whose staff began the process of starving and dehydrating Eluana Englaro to death shows it took its toll on the disabled woman quickly. Englaro suffered from the effects of the withdrawal of food and water more rapidly than similar patients and died faster as well.
“Monday afternoon, temperature rises. Mucous membranes dry. Nurses spray lips with water droplets," the log read on Monday. A few hours later, Englaro died.
The Italian daily newspaper Corriere Della Sera says a "distress log" accompanied Englaro's medical records during the final days of her life.
The newspaper indicated the Italian nuns who took care of Englaro prior to her arrival at the medical center where she was deprived of food and water did a good job because she arrived in a very healthy condition.
The log indicated staff continued to feed Englaro for three days to familiarize themselves with her condition prior to killing her. They also continued the treatments the nuns gave her such as turning her body over every four hours, giving her antiepileptic drugs, and removing mucous saliva by suction periodically.
The notes say the beginning of the deprivation of food and water began at 6 a.m. on Friday morning. Then, Eluana’s nasogastric tube was shut with a stopper and the “distress log” was opened.
Just 24 hours later, on Saturday afternoon, Eluana had difficulty breathing and her mucous membranes were dry. Nurses sprayed water with a nebuliser, the paper indicated.
By Sunday, her medical condition deteriorated significantly.
Although nurses continued turning her body and spraying her mucous membranes with more water, Marinella Chirico, a RAI journalist who saw Eluana, reported that she was “unrecognizable, there are abrasions on her ears."
By that time, Eluana was under sedation with the drug Delorazepam, injected subcutaneously.
On Monday, staff continued to turn Eluana's body from side to side every four hours and the nurses moistened her lips with water at 10.15 a.m as sedation continued.
The log records the final moments saying her temperature rose in the afternoon on Monday, Englaro was weak breathing with extreme difficulty and still under sedation. She produced no more urine and by 7.35 p.m. her heart stopped beating and the clinic pronounced her dead.
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I can only imagine that Michael Schiavo is perversely happy today. What a monstrosity. Way to go Mikey. You jerk.
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Lets hope that there is an appropriate punishment in Hell for those responsible for her murder.
It’s horrible to call people “nurses” whose job it is to kill.
I feel so sorry for the nuns who must be heartbroken.
There is, no doubt about it.
IIRC this guy got a county judge to pronounce a death sentence. And the moderate and liberal educated elite above the rest of us cheered... I remember just to have Tom Delay require proper congressional oversight of lower courts brought out the cries of a 'blow-back'... claim of some even on this site...
The liberals and moderates are about to find out just how much their and their loved ones lives are valued when the liberals take charge over their health care... According to the more educated among us there was a 'report' done on Ms. Terri that made the death sentence the proper call. I am sure it will be a model to be followed since it was allowed to set a precedence.
I fear you are correct.
I wonder how many of the FReepers who cheered Terri's murderers are still cheering now that one of the lawyers who helped kill her is now #3 at the DOJ.
I never expect any of them to ever admit they were wrong, because they read the report. And Ms. Terri was not really alive to them anyway, even though it took 13 days for her brain to stop sending that signal to the heart to keep beating. And how so many of them trashed the parents for trying to get $$$$$ and that poor man was so disparaged for wanting his wife dead. I suspect that we all get to reap what we sow.
You’re right. These were the same people who believed that conservatives had their “foot on the neck” of the GOP and that we should just abandon conservatism.
NONE of them seemed to accept that when a man moves in with another woman and has children with her, he has ABANDONED his wife and any spousal rights that may go with it. And to this day, NONE of them have been able to provide an explanation about how someone who was a “vegetable” (as they claimed Terri was) could possibly experience “euphoria.”
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