Philippe Petit is responsible for ethical issues at the National Union of Associations of Families of Head Trauma and Cerebral Injury (UNAFTC).
LE FIGARO.
- How do the relatives of patients experience these situations of coma, then a state of minimal consciousness or unresponsive awakening?
Philippe PETIT.
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The family is first of all in a state of bewilderment, because the onset of the coma is sudden.
Very often, when the lesions are severe, the resuscitators ask them to quickly make the choice to stop treatment or not.
This pressure remains strong, as the resuscitators feel a responsibility for what may happen next.
They do not want to burden families with the situation, which no one wants, of a loved one in a vegetative or pauci-relational state.
When you resuscitate someone, it is always in the hope that they will recover.
In this phase of resuscitation, families are sometimes asked to make choices which they
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