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DNR orders in the OR.
Patients with do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders may elect to have palliative surgery. Should DNR orders be automatically suspended in the operating room (OR)? This article addresses the following issues: (1) Ethics of DNR orders. (2) The American Society of Anesthesiology's Ethical Guidelines for the Anesthesia Care of Patients with Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders or Other Directives that Limit Treatme...
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Families making difficult end-of-life decisions in the intensive care unit often do not exercise their autonomy in accord with the individualistic philosophic and legal models that currently prevail. Instead, they try to avoid responsibility and deny complicity, even for decisions that they ultimately approve. This paper examines two novels and a recent case from a neonatal intensive care unit ...
متن کاملScale of levels of care versus DNR orders.
I n his paper, which we read with interest, Cherniack argues that there is a worldwide increase in the use of do not resuscitate (DNR) orders in the care of the elderly. As geriatricians in an emergency department and a geriatric department we are concerned by this important ethical topic, and we understand that this increase is a reflection of the demographic increase in frail very old persons...
متن کاملPrehospital DNR orders: what do physicians in Washington know?
OBJECTIVES To assess whether physicians know of Washington State's prehospital do-not-resuscitate (DNR) policy, 6 years after its implementation. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Washington State, April 2001. PARTICIPANTS Four hundred seventy-one practicing physicians. MEASUREMENTS Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine relationships between physician and practice ...
متن کاملResponse to: Increasing use of DNR orders in the elderly worldwide: whose choice is it.
Most elderly patients die with an order in place that they not be given cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNR order). Surveys have shown that many elderly in different parts of the world want to be resuscitated, but may lack knowledge about the specifics of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Data from countries other than the US is limited, but differences in physician and patient opinions by na...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North America
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2160-9829,0899-8299
DOI: 10.5915/41-3-5115