Should relatives witness resuscitation? Ethical issues and practical considerations

C Rosenczweig - Cmaj, 1998 - Can Med Assoc
In winning second prize in the Logie Medical Ethics Essay Contest in 1997, Carolyn
Rosenczweig raised questions about the role patients' family members should be allowed to …

Do relatives have a right to witness resuscitation?

WM Walker - Journal of Clinical Nursing (Wiley-Blackwell), 1999 - search.ebscohost.com
A relative's right to witness resuscitation is the subject of considerable discussion and
debate. This paper explores the presence of relatives in the resuscitation room from a moral …

Patients' and relatives' view on witnessed resuscitation in the emergency department: a prospective study

LJM Mortelmans, V Van Broeckhoven… - European Journal of …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Background The appropriateness of family witnessing resuscitation (FWR) is an ethical
dilemma with most emergency care providers being opponents. We hypothesized that …

Family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: who should decide?

Z Lederman, M Garasic, M Piperberg - Journal of medical ethics, 2014 - jme.bmj.com
Whether to allow the presence of family members during cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(CPR) has been a highly contentious topic in recent years. Even though a great deal of …

Family witnessed resuscitation in UK emergency departments: a survey of practice

MG Booth, L Woolrich, J Kinsella - European journal of …, 2004 - cambridge.org
SummaryBackground and objectives: The American Heart Association guidelines from 2000
recommend that family members be allowed to witness cardiopulmonary resuscitation. This …

Should family members be present during cardiopulmonary resuscitation?

E Tsai - New England Journal of Medicine, 2002 - Mass Medical Soc
The author acknowledges that the presence of family members during resuscitation
procedures is not always desirable or possible. However, she endorses programs at …

Witnessed resuscitation by relatives

R Boyd - Resuscitation, 2000 - Elsevier
Witnessed resuscitation is the process of active 'medical'resuscitation in the presence of
family members. Witnessed resuscitation though not as yet wide spread in practice is …

Should family members be present during cardiopulmonary resuscitation? A review of the literature

CD Critchell, PE Marik - American Journal of Hospice and …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
During resuscitation, family members are often escorted out of the room for fear of immediate
and long-term consequences to the family, the patient, and the physician. However …

Should relatives be denied access to the resuscitation room?

C Ardley - Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 2003 - Elsevier
Within a health care system that promotes choice and autonomy, it no longer seems
appropriate to exclude relatives from the resuscitation room. There is a growing body of …

Family witnessed resuscitation: the views and preferences of recently resuscitated hospital inpatients, compared to matched controls without the experience of …

J Albarran, P Moule, J Benger, K McMahon-Parkes… - Resuscitation, 2009 - Elsevier
AIM OF THE STUDY: To compare the preferences of patients who survived resuscitation
with those admitted as emergency cases about whether family members should be present …