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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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NJ ICU Nurse Joyce Park Saves Life of Car Accident Victim

Daily Nurse

Closter police said he suffered a cardiac event and was going into a seizure. 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.

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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. “These events are fortunately rare, but when they do occur, staff members need to be familiar with the surgical instruments and techniques needed,” Tsiouris said. The study is published in Critical Care Nurse ( CCN ).

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How Trained CPR Coaches Are Transforming Pediatric ICU Response Teams

Daily Nurse

A recent study, Impact of a Quality Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Coach on Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Resuscitation Teams , published in the American Journal of Critical Care , shows how incorporating trained CPR coaches into pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) response teams can make a lifesaving difference.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

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? But I think what I didn’t know was that when somebody makes a decision to get to a certain event that the work isn’t done then.

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Can I Include End of Life Care Wishes in My Will?

Seasons Hospice

This document can specify your end-of-life wishes in the event that you become unable to make decisions for yourself. There are four main types of advanced directives: living wills, durable powers of attorney, do-not-resuscitate orders, and five wishes. Do you want to be resuscitated if your heart stops beating?