RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Letter to an ethicist: resuscitative interventions
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 887
OP 888
VO 154
IS 6
A1 J. J. Quinlan
A1 W. A. Cook
YR 1996
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/154/6/887.abstract
AB Few issues raise more questions for physicians than the resuscitation of seriously ill patients. In the following exchange of letters, Dr. John Quinlan discusses two difficult cases involving patient resuscitation, while Dr. William Cook responds by referring to the Joint Statement on Resuscitative Interventions that was approved last year by the CMA and several other health care organizations.