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| webjeee
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So, what is true about DNR?
CPR and intubation?
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| drvic
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DNR is Do Not Resuscitate. usually given as advance directives for somebody known to be in terminal stages of a chronic disabling illness which is not going to have improved survival by any form of medical therapy. these patients are explained about their illness and they may make this decision in advance. so these patients are considered "medically futile" that is no treatment or intervention, even CPR and intubation, is going to help them much in the long term.
so DNR status means that you will only provide palliative care to the patient to make their last moments more comfortable (like giving morphine if they are in significant pain), but you are not supposed to attempt ANY form of resuscitation, be it CPR or intubation. this is what DNR implies by definition
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| webjeee
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Thank you so much.
So, nothing but morphine if needed.
but, for the use of morphine, people in the forum do not aggree on this issue. As I know, you can treat these patients with morphine even if morphine will kind of cause the final death of the patient. But, for the test, it can't be the right answer for ethic issue.
What's your opinion?
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