"’Do Not Resuscitate’ does not mean ‘Do Not Treat’"

June 26, 2007

Shadowfax on treating the elderly in the emergency room.



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1 Megan June 26, 2007 at 4:39 pm

Man of the DNR/DNIs I work with are hospice, or on their way there, which pretty much means comfort care only for most of them. The family, and in some cases patient them self, will make their expectations heard and the prognosis is often obvious to anyone.

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