Introduction DNR‚ Do Not Resuscitate‚ is an order that alerts medical professionals not to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation‚ CPR‚ on an individual. CPR consists of life saving methods such as procedures that can involve mouth to mouth resuscitation to using a defibrillator‚ intubation‚ and using cardio tonic drugs to bring the patient back to life. DNR orders is a legal document that has been sustained by the individual or proxy
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Often times at Medicine ward‚ I encouter patients family deciding to have a DNR or Do Not Resuscitate order. Once they decide‚ they have to sign the patients chart for legality purposes. But what is exactly DNR? A Do Not Resuscitate‚ or DNR order is a written order from a doctor that resuscitation should not be attempted if a person suffers cardiac or respiratory arrest. Such an order may be instituted on the basis of an advance directive from a person‚ or from someone entitled to make decisions
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doctors have indicated may not occur. Patient Preferences: The patient has not been involved in the decisions regarding her current treatment‚ and did not have a DNR in place or an advance directive in place regarding situations such as this. The family who had been acting as surrogates‚ were ready to stop treatment and place a DNR based on the prognosis given about the patient. As of now no one has fully assessed the patient’s decision making capacity or asked the patient about her preferences
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The DNR order grants freedom of choice to those who face the option of death‚ but along with their right of preference‚ the order affects how physicians handle their patients. When dealing with a patient with a DNR order on their living will‚ physicians must put aside their moral conduct and what they view as right and wrong so as to serve and care for their patients as best as they can. William Sumrall further explains “when surgery and anesthesia are necessary for the care of the patient with
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Running Head: HOW DNR CAUSES AN ETHICAL DILEMMA How DNR Causes an Ethical Dilemma Deann Morgan HCA 322‚ Health Care Ethics and Medical Law Dr. David Cole January 22‚ 2010 Abstract This paper will present an argument of how the process of do not resuscitate (DNR) results in an ethical dilemma for workers in the healthcare field. In presenting the argument‚ this
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DNR officers are an everyday task force that enforce serous laws on natural resources. People are breaking laws every day ordinary police offices can’t enforce that deals with hunting and fishing laws. For example‚ what happens when someone is poaching on your land and is killing your wild game and you don’t like that who would enforce that law? They have a wide range of laws they can actually enforce not just hunting and fishing laws they deal with drugs‚ theft and regular police work like speeding
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place decisions are a lot easier on the family members. “A good advance directive describes the kind of treatment you would want depending on how sick you are‚” Sally Austin explained in her article Families making decisions‚ dying death and DNR status. “For example‚ the directives would describe what kind of care you want if you have an illness that you are unlikely to recover from‚ or if you are permanently unconscious.” Advance directives usually tell your doctor that you don’t want certain
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the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. “In 1986‚ Congress passed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)‚ which forbids Medicare-participating hospitals from “dumping” patients out of emergency departments” (Pozgar‚ 2010‚ p. 221). The act provides that: In the case of a hospital that has a hospital emergency department‚ if any individual (whether or not eligible for benefits under this sub- chapter) comes to the emergency department and a request is made on
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by a physician indicating that in the event of a cardiac or respiratory arrest “no” resuscitative measures should be used to revive the patient” (Pozgar & Santucci‚ 2010‚ pg. 132). The physician can write the do-not-resuscitate order at the request of the family‚ appointed caregiver‚ or from information obtained from an advanced directive (Pozgar & Santucci‚ 2010). Originally‚ the history of the do-not-resuscitate order stems from the case of Cruzan v. Director‚ Missouri dept. of Health
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Running Head: DNR 1 Do not Resuscitate Requests/Issues Tamiki Jackson HCA322: Health Care Ethics & Medical Law Instructor: Linda Hoppe September 16‚ 2013 Running Head: DNR 2 Do not Resuscitate Requests/Issues Do not resuscitate is a hot topic among families‚ health
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