A do-not-resuscitate order instructs healthcare providers to refrain from cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if a patient’s breathing stops or if the patient’s heart stops beating. CPR can also pose a dilemma, but one worth considering, especially in the context of your health (or the heal...
Zhukovsky DS, Hwang JP, Palmer JL, Willey J, Flamm AL, Smith ML. Wide variation in content of inpatient do-not-resuscitate order forms used at National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in the United States. Support Care Cancer. 2009;17(2):109-15....
Do you want a do not resuscitate (DNR) order or do not intubate (DNI) order? A scenario where this would be important might involve a person who has a terminal illness. If their heart stops while they’re under care and they have a DNR, doctors won’t use CPR, a defibrillator or a...
Without a well-functioning, prehospital, do-not-resuscitate (DNR) system in place, emergency medical service (EMS) providers must resuscitate all patients who access the system, regardless of the patients' wishes and regardless of what makes ethical or economic sense. In lieu of valid documentation...
Do-not-resuscitate order after 25 years BackgroundIn 1976, the first hospital policies on orders not to resuscitate were published in the medical literature. Since that time, the concept has cont... JP Burns,J Edwards,J Johnson,... - 《Critical Care Medicine》 被引量: 361发表: 2003年 ...
Understand definitions of terms like healthcare proxy, Do Not Resuscitate, memory care, home care, trusts, and financial power of attorney. Don’t assume that your loved one can grasp the meaning of these terms and the role they play in end-of-life decisions. ...
Living Life On Death's Game Board genre: Do Not Resuscitate In the aftermath of my sisters serious illness this past week, I couldn't help but share my contemplations on life's strange relationship with death. While we often do our best to avoid the subject, it consistently finds the ...
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(Companions of the Cave) will leave the cave and be the soldiers of Mahdi. 10 We do not know exactly what Ashab Kahfs resuscitation and becoming soldiers mean. We can only say that dead spirits will resuscitate and return to life by means of the messages of Mahdi concerning belief, like...
and was having an abruption (premature separation of the placenta leading to heavy vaginal bleeding). It was very hard to auscultate a fetal heart beat and I feared the baby was dead. After delivering the baby with a vacuum it needed urgent resuscitation. I attempted to resuscitate the baby...