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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. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.

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Firestorm

The Nurse Break

Peeking out of the small window in the resuscitation room, it seemed the world had been dipped in a bucket of hell. They were rushed into the resuscitation room where the trauma team pounced on them. Generally, working in the resuscitation room is nothing like you see portrayed on TV. I was working that day. the firestorm.

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