Background: In an environment characterized by cuts to health care, hospital closures,
increasing reliance on home care and an aging population, more terminally ill patients are …

Paramedics in Oslo are allowed to make decisions about withholding or terminating
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). In order to elicit the criteria used, 35 paramedics and …

Approximately 400,000 people die outside US hospitals or chronic care facilities each year.
While there has been some recent movement towards initiating procedures for prehospital …

BACKGROUND: Despite potential harm to patients, families, and emergency personnel, a
low survival rate, and high costs and intensity of care, attempting resuscitation after …

Objective. The vast majority of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims do not survive or suffer
severe neurological impairment. We sought to develop a set of straightforward clinical …

ContextThe epidemiology of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders for hospitalized patients has
been reported, but little is known about factors associated with the use of cardiopulmonary …

Background: Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel often are not permitted to honor
requests to withhold resuscitation at the end of life, particularly if there is no written do-not …

Patients, families, and physicians frequently decide that a hospitalized patient will forgo
cardiopulmonary resuscitation and document this decision with a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) …

Background Physicians are occasionally faced with patients requesting full resuscitation
against medical advice. More commonly, neither patients nor their family members make …

The aging of the American population is the most important demographic factor affecting the
prevalence of cardiac arrhythmias because heart disease increases in prevalence with …