An analysis of dilemmas posed by prehospital DNR orders☆
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2017, Journal of Emergency MedicineCitation Excerpt :Suicide is usually not an autonomous decision and treatment must be done to return a patient to a level of functioning where decisions are well informed. ED personnel are not in a position to evaluate the ability of a patient to make an autonomous decision when presented with someone who just attempted suicide (13). In the current case, both the patient's power of attorney for health care and her primary care provider were immediately available and could quickly summarize the patient's terminal illness and previous wishes.
Outstanding ethico-legal-fiqhi issues
2012, Journal of Taibah University Medical SciencesCitation Excerpt :They may undertake futile resuscitation19 because they are uncertain about the prognosis. Emergencies such as choking or suicide attempts in patients with DNR orders create complex legal problems.20 I think that, according to the general principle mentioned above, ambulance personnel should resuscitate whenever they are in doubt, because of the overriding purpose of protecting life, maqsad hifdh al nafs.
"Do not attempt resuscitation" (DNAR) in the out-of-Hospital setting
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Ethics is coordinated by Kenneth Iserson, md, mba, of the Arizona Bioethics Program at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.