Search Tag: do-not-resuscitate order
2016 02 Aug
Patient preferences for “Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR)” decisions and how health services deal with them are the subject of a review published by the UK National Institute for Health Research. Prof. Gavin Perkins , professor of critical care medicine, University of Warwick, and colleagues, set out to identify why conflict...Read more
2015 22 Sep
Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders are often established for patients whose prognosis is poor. Now new research published in JAMA finds that almost two-thirds of patients with the worst prognosis after in-hospital cardiac arrest did not have DNR orders. “Among patients with a low likelihood of favourable neurological survival after in-hospital cardiac...Read more