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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. Some states ask for both things.
If I need to do a ventilator on someone, if we need to have a BiPAP, or non-invasive ventilation, or if we need different modalities, those will be done. The hospitals should be really for triaging, and and then hopefully successfully resuscitating and rehabilitating people. In 2014, I made the jump fully to hospice.
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I think one of the residents you asked how would they broach a subject, and he said wording like, “Unfortunately, he still needs a ventilator.” ” You talk about this too, even in your own training, where even around CPR, the training is like he might need a ventilator if he couldn’t protect his airway.
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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. Your own concerns and hopes.
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. Your own concerns and hopes.
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