Traditions Health

APRIL 15, 2024

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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Traditions Health

APRIL 16, 2023

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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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? They got feedback.

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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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