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Health Care Orgs Face Liability If End-of-Life Wishes Not Upheld

Hospice News

Some call these cases “wrongful life lawsuits” when they occur in the courts, though “wrongful resuscitation” may be the more accurate term. . This can prevent or delay hospice care for individuals who chose to receive it. .

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The Value of Hospice-Emergency Department Collaboration

Hospice News

Due to the ways EDs function — with the motto “triage, resuscitate, stabilize and transfer” — staff often wait until the patient is actively dying to contact hospice or palliative care, according to Malloy. “They are also not equipped to manage the increasing number of people that come in during their final phase of life.”

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Done Right, Advance Care Planning Can Reduce High-Acuity Utilization

Hospice News

Those were a group of outcomes that we looked at that included mechanical ventilation, hospital admissions within the last 30 days of life, intensive care unit admissions, receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and chemotherapy within the last two weeks of life. The hospice indicator is stratified.

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What You Need to Know About Do Not Resuscitate Orders in Hospice Care

Three Oaks Hospice

What Is a Do Not Resuscitate Order? A do not resuscitate order (DNR) is a legal order signed by a physician that specifies you do not want to be resuscitated in an emergency, meaning no steps will be taken to restart your heart or restore breathing should you experience cardiac arrest or respiratory arrest. [.].

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Longleaf Medical Director: Hospice Care Needs a ‘Revolution’ 

Hospice News

The hospitals should be really for triaging, and and then hopefully successfully resuscitating and rehabilitating people. The hospitals should be really for triaging, and and then hopefully successfully resuscitating and rehabilitating people. I conceive of a very different model. I am hoping for a revolution in hospice medicine.

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NJ ICU Nurse Joyce Park Saves Life of Car Accident Victim

Daily Nurse

Her chest compressions were successful, and she resuscitated him after about 30 seconds. Park says she has resuscitated patients multiple times during her seven years as a nurse but never in an everyday situation like the one she encountered this evening. The 35-year-old nurse’s training kicked in.

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Simulation Helps Clinicians Prepare for High-Risk Procedures

Daily Nurse

The surgery involves reopening the patient’s chest after defibrillation did not resuscitate them. Participants also indicated understanding the differences between guidelines for resuscitating patients who experience cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery and the more commonly used Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support protocol.