Do-not-resuscitate orders
End of Life Care and Do Not Resuscitate Orders: How Much Does Age Influence Decision Making? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
... not resuscitate” (DNAR) decisions, pertaining to the appropriateness of attempting resuscitation following a cardiac arrest, are becoming ...resuscitation” orders were more prevalent in older patients; ...
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The epidemiology of do-not-resuscitate orders in patients with trauma: a community level one trauma center observational experience
... Do-Not-Resuscitate orders in the trauma setting have not been well characterized. The majority of studies de- scribing DNR in a hospital setting have been performed in surgical patients [13-16], ...
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Early do-not-resuscitate orders in intracerebral haemorrhage; frequency and predictive value for death and functional outcome. A retrospective cohort study
... early Do-Not – Resuscitate orders (DNR orders) in patients with intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) had negative prognostic impact on ...DNR orders on functional outcome and whether DNR ...
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Internal medicine residents' perspectives and practice about do not resuscitate orders: survey analysis in the western region of Saudi Arabia
... observed in our study may be explained by the higher percent- age of residents who reported having been observed by an attending physician during DNR discussions compared with the US study (43% versus 26%). ...
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Awareness of do-not-resuscitate orders
... Our survey instrument underwent limited validation. That a high number of respondents accurately identi- fi ed the correct defi nition of DNR might be a refl ection of how the question was asked, rather than a refl ection ...
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Increase in the proportion of patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction with do-not-resuscitate orders already in place between 2001 and 2007: a nonconcurrent prospective study
... DNR orders were calculated using linear trends ...DNR orders and also according to the timing of DNR orders using chi-square ...DNR orders as well as the timing of these ...DNR orders ...
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Differences in do-not-resuscitate orders, hospice care utilization, and late referral to hospice care between cancer and non-cancer decedents in a tertiary Hospital in Taiwan between 2010 and 2015: a hospital-based observational study
... For both the cancer and non-cancer patient groups, the rates of hospice care utilization increased significantly throughout the study period. DNR order rates also increased, albeit unsteadily, among the non-cancer group. ...
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Impact of frailty on do-not-resuscitate orders and healthcare transitions among elderly Koreans with pneumonia
... Results: Among the 65 patients (15.1% of pneumonia patients) who completed DNR documents, 24 patients were survived, and 21 patients decided imminent to death (,24 hours before death), with all decisions determined by ...
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Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: Islamic viewpoint
... has decision-making capacity and has the right to refuse medical therapy, including treatment that will sustain life artificially. During critical illnesses and in case of sustained coma such decision would be taken on ...
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Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders for Pediatric Patients Who Require Anesthesia and Surgery
... DNR orders by providing anesthesiologists with the opportunity to educate the parent (or other surrogate) to become familiar with their values and perceptions of the child’s quality of life and together clarify ...
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Are physicians on the same page about do-not-resuscitate? To examine individual physicians’ influence on do-not-resuscitate decision-making: a retrospective and observational study
... Methods: This study was conducted in closed model, surgical intensive care units in a university-affiliated teaching hospital located in Northern Taiwan. The medical records of patients, admitted to the surgical ...
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Treatment-limiting decisions in patients with severe traumatic brain injury in a Norwegian regional trauma center
... Results: TLDs were documented for 101/579 sTBI patients (17%). The situation was evaluated as futile in 59 cases and as potentially inappropriate in 42 cases. The three most frequent types of TLDs were withholding of ...
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<p>Pediatricians’ Perceptions Toward Do Not Resuscitate: A Survey in Saudi Arabia and Literature Review</p>
... DNR orders would prefer not to receive other inter- ventions, so potentially bene fi cial care may be withheld against the patient ’ s ...DNR orders than for patients without such ...
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What is the true definition of a "Do-Not-Resuscitate" order? A Japanese perspective
... We hypothesized that DNR orders are sometimes applied as comfort measures and that they reduce physicians’ willingness to perform more invasive procedures. Therefore, non-CPR procedures were categorized according ...
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Perspectives of interns and residents toward do-not-resuscitate policies in Saudi Arabia
... DNR orders, interns and residents believed that the patient in question should be part of the decision-making process, a stance that coincides with ethi- cal norms in North America and Europe and also in many ...
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The Iranian physicians attitude toward the do not resuscitate order
... attitude toward the DNR order in medical students of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences; however, we could not find other research reports on the attitudes of general practitioners and specialists toward DNR ...
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Effect of a do-not-resuscitate order on the quality of care in acute heart failure patients: a single-center cohort study
... DNR orders on admission (Tables 1 and 2). Patients with DNR orders tended to be older and were more likely to be ...DNR orders (Tables 1 and ...DNR orders in terms of other comorbidities, ...
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A critical review of the factors leading to cardiopulmonary resuscitation as the default position of hospitalized patients in the USA regardless of severity of illness
... In light of such behavior, the State of New York convened the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law that proposed legislation that affirmed the presump- tion that all patients consent to CPR in case of a cardio- ...
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Impact of ASA score misclassification on NSQIP predicted mortality: a retrospective analysis
... not resuscitate” (DNR) status, “procedure risk ” (low, medium, or high), NSQIP and University Hospital Consortium predicted mortality, and finally the American Society of Anesthesia (ASA) physical status ...
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation practices in the Netherlands: results from a nationwide survey
... In previous self-reported survey studies, conducted in 2009 and 2015 in the US, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, only 52–62% of hospitals reported offering routine training for CPR team members [20, 21]. An- other ...
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