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Why Families Should Consider Forgoing CPR

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Michael Gordon
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Physicians usually become adept at choosing medications for the complaints and illnesses that patients bring to their attention.
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It happens a few times a month: I get a request for a meeting with a family struggling…

It happens a few times a month: I get a request for a meeting with a family struggling whether or not to provide a do not resuscitate (DNR) order for a frail and aged family member. Often the patient has dementia, and, therefore, the decision falls to the formal substitute decision maker (SDM), in keeping with the Health Care Consent Act in Ontario (and comparable legislation elsewhere).

Topic
Law and Ethics
Section
Blogs
Keyword
CPR

More Controversy About CPR: Is There a "Duty" to Try and Save Every Life?

Dr.Michael Gordon Michael Gordon, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Medical Program Director, Palliative Care, Baycrest Geriatric Health Care System, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

On March 4, 2013, an article written by the Associated Press described the death from an apparent cardiac arrest of Lorraine Bayless, an 87 year old resident of Glenwood Gardens, a California independent living home in Bakersfield California.

Related Terms: Dementia, CPR, cardiac arrest, event, time, medicine
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