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Heart 2001;86:1-2; doi:10.1136/heart.86.1.1
Copyright © 2001 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Cardiovascular Society
Heart 2001;86:1-2 ( July )

Editorial

Do not resuscitate

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Last year the Resuscitation Council (UK) together with the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing updated their statement "Decisions relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation". This short document should be read by all healthcare professionals whose practice may involve "do not resuscitate" (DNR) decisions. It is designed to be a framework on which hospital and other trusts may build their own more detailed guidelines.

The advice contained within the document seems simple enough. There are three situations in which a DNR order is appropriate: if cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is unlikely to be effective; if it is known that the patient does not wish to receive CPR; and if successful CPR would not result in a length, or more importantly a quality, of life which would be in the patient's best interest.

Surely few would disagree? Yet there has been considerable misunderstanding, particularly on the part of the public, and . . . [Full text of this article]
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