Raising the Dead? Limits of CPR and Harms of Defensive Practices
We describe the case of an eighty-four-year-old man with disseminated lung cancer who had been receiving palliative care in the hospital and was found by nursing staff unresponsive, with clinically obvious signs of death, including rigor mortis. Because there was no documentation to the contrary, th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2022
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The Hastings Center report
Year: 2022, Volume: 52, Issue: 6, Pages: 8-12 |
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defensive medicine
B Managerialism B advance care directives B DNR B clinical ethics B Resuscitation |
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