1-800-HOSPICE

DECEMBER 21, 2021

One common myth about hospice is that patients must forgo the option to be resuscitated when dying. While most patients in hospice make an advance directive stating a preference to not be resuscitated or intubated, this is not a requirement. DNR stands for “do not resuscitate.” If there is any doubt, they will resuscitate.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

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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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

Level of resuscitation status in the event of a sudden deterioration (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ventilation, intubation); as well as treatments that should be administered to your child (analgesia, antibiotics, anticonvulsants, transfusions). What the palliative care team needs to know. What the palliative care team needs to know.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

My guess is that few had had those important conversations or had been offered a wider range of choices than just to be hospitalized or be resuscitated/full code. Palliative care could prevent many ED visits. This study reviewed data on almost a billion (854,911,106) ED visits, of which 4.2% were made by patients with cancer.

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Palliverse

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

What can we do to resuscitate the hospice movement? Are we brave enough to accept that we are not the experts on everything? Our populations are ageing and there will be more elderly people around than ever before. There will be more people with dementia and end-stage frailty who will need palliative care input.

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AJN Off the Charts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Marian Grant, palliative care NP. I’m a health policy consultant for national palliative care organizations and often advocate for advance care planning, a process that helps people with serious illness prepare for future decision-making. I recently saw a patient whose case typifies how advance care planning and policies to support it can work.

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The Nurse Break

MAY 9, 2023

Betty had completed an advance care directive (ACD) stating her wishes not to be resuscitated and that she did not wish to die in a hospital, but in her current environment. Go Here Some time ago we had a 98 yo lady (whom I will call Betty), transferred to our emergency department from a local nursing home.

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Palliverse

JUNE 5, 2023

She died suddenly and the family asked the nurses to perform CPR – cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Photo by Nik on Unsplash We thought she still had weeks left to live. We didn’t know it would only be hours. The nurses calmly and gently refused. They knew it wouldn’t work, she had been too unwell. Had we done enough?

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Traditions Health

APRIL 16, 2023

If you want to be resuscitated if your heartbeat stops. As the disease progresses, you may begin thinking more about Do-Not-Resuscitate orders and mechanical ventilation. Some of the things that you can include instructions on are: If you want healthcare providers to use a breathing machine. If you want your organs to be donated.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

James Tulsky did a study in the late 80s looking at how residents at UCSF talked about code status, where the paradigmatic way was, if your heart stops, do you want us to resuscitate it? Alex: We are delighted to welcome Jacky Kruser, who’s a pulmonary critical care doctor and health services researcher at the University of Wisconsin.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

That’s a whole different case than the new world we’re in now where resuscitation science and critical care has created a situation where people have all kinds of time to be that far away from the end and really contemplate it, and like Juliet is saying, adapt to it, deal with it, and be at the correct stage. That’s great.

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This ensures that the family and the care team honor the patient’s wishes like determining do not resuscitate (DNR) status, using ventilator support, and providing enteral feedings. Documenting care preferences in advance — Planning care early in the disease process is a meaningful way to identify, document, and communicate a patient’s goals.

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Living With Hospice

MARCH 5, 2022

One more thing before we move off of legal medical directives are very important, especially a do not resuscitate a DNR. If you don't want to be resuscitated, you need to have a DNR and that needs to be on file with your doctor, your lawyer, and everybody in the family needs to know that. Nobody wants to deal with it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

But when the doctor explained the choices between, you can either have CPR or have a do not resuscitate order, or you can have CPR or allow a natural death. When it was do not resuscitate, fewer people chose it. Summary Transcript Summary Amber Barnato is an expert in simulation studies. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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