摘要
背景:急诊医疗(EMS)工作人员常常不被允许按照家属意愿终止临终时刻复苏,尤其是在缺少书面不予复苏(DNR)志愿书的时候。目的:观察实施新指南医疗机构的EMS人员是否比未实施新指南医疗机构的EMS人员更可能终止院外心脏停搏患者的复苏抢救。设计:
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-resuscitate(DNR) order. Objective: To determine whether EMS personnel from agencies implementing new guidelines would be more likely to withhold resuscitation from persons having out-of-hospital cardiac arrests than would personnel from agencies that did not implement the guidelines. Design: Observational study in which 16 of ...
