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POA: Understanding the Need for Essential Documents

Traditions Health

There are several legal and medical forms you can use to help capture your wishes — from advance directives and living wills to physician orders for life-sustaining treatment and do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders. A healthcare POA lets you appoint someone to make health-related decisions for you.

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An Introduction to Advance Directives

Traditions Health

Some of the things that you can include instructions on are: If you want healthcare providers to use a breathing machine. If you want to be resuscitated if your heartbeat stops. This healthcare proxy should be someone you trust to make decisions for you, in the event you are unable to do so.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. I remember there was an Archives article from, or Annals, I forget, it was probably called Archives back then, Resuscitating Advanced Directives. Bernie: So let me flip it around.

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