Notes indicating the patient has a "do not resuscitate" order are written on the window of a patient's room in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Three Rivers Asante Medical Center on September 9, 2021 in Grants Pass, Oregon. Like many hospitals in the state, Three Rivers Asante is ...
Few people infected with the coronavirus will need a ventilator. For those who do, ventilators can certainly be life-saving. Patients have successfully come off ventilators, and outcomes would be even worse if hospitals didn’t have the devices at all. But they are not going to be a cu...
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) opposes automatic reversal of do-not-resuscitate orders during the perioperative period, instead advocating for a goal-directed approach that aligns decision-making with patients' priorities and clinical circumstances. Implementation of ASA guidelines continues ...