As we make progress in different fields, the Quantity or longevity of life has gone up, but the Quality of Life has actually come down. The Cost of Living has gone up, but the Cost of Dying has increased several times!! Earlier, a person having Cardiac Arrest, inside a hospital or outside, had no option but to die. But with the advent of Cardiac Defibrillators, several such people can be saved by CPR, Defibrillators and use of devices like ICD.
A person presenting with Acute MI in the early stages can be saved by giving a thrombolytic injection or doing a life saving Angioplasty procedure in the nearby Cath Lab. A person who develops respiratory arrest due to any cause is put on a ventilator in an ICU along with continuous monitoring of his vital functions by multipara monitors. The result: More and more people are being saved from death but at what cost? Common sense suggests that we…
