But is food, water, or air ordinary care or extraordinary care? I consider them to be ordinary care, no matter the delivery.
But is food, water, or air ordinary care or extraordinary care? I consider them to be ordinary care, no matter the delivery.
That's what makes this situation so difficult, so many interpretations are possible.
From a medical point of view, ventilators to deliver air are definitely considered extraordinary care. Most consider IVs and feeding tubes in that category as well, but I suspect some disagree. It's difficult to decide - if an IV giving fluids isn't extraordinary, for the long term if you have to put a catheter into the large central vein, is that extraordinary? A century ago all this would have been moot, as the technology didn't exist, and people in this situation would have died.