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Date Posted: 19:53:43 01/20/03 Mon
Author: Sharon Farrell
Subject: Re: Resucitation rights
In reply to: CANRN 's message, "Re: Resucitation rights" on 07:24:28 02/22/01 Thu

>>>My father just died in a hospital in Ohio on saturday. We were pressured to change his wishes from resucitate to DNR. We were repeated taked aside and asked to convince our mother to change my father's decision. We were given misinformation about his being burned and going thru torture by a nurse on duty. When his heart did fail and he was resucitated that did not occur. I too would like to know the law on this. We are as tramatized by the tactics of the hospital as we are about the death.
>>>rights regarding the not for resucitation orders, and
>>>the doctors responsibility in passing the order?
>
>I'm a nurse in OHIO. Our state, and I believe this has
>been adopted throughout the country but not sure, has
>new DNR laws. IF a person signs an order and is
>classified as a
>
>DNRCC-COMFORT MEASURES ONLY will be provided and NO
>resuscitation efforts will be made nor will they be
>intubated or placed on a cardiac monitor.
>
>If they are classified as DNRCCARREST, all measures,
>surgery, etc, will be done to repair any treatable
>non-terminal condition. IF however they arrest, no
>resucitation efforts will be made.
>
>Unless the patient has a POA, NO ONE can challenge it.
>If no one is a POA, they can not revoke this or change
>it.
>
>That is MY understanding and the understanding of the
>facility I work in.
>
>There have been cases where the family insisted on
>their loved one be taken to the ER for "evaluation"
>and once they arrive, we do NOT place them on cardiac
>monitors IF there is a DNR order written. We do blood
>work and xrays, but that is it!

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