Posted on 03/28/2018 2:41:40 PM PDT by Twotone
Patients beware. When you’re admitted to a hospital, you’re routinely encouraged to sign a DNR, short for Do Not Resuscitate order. Don’t assume it will apply only in extreme circumstances. New research shows having those three letters — DNR — on your chart could put you on course to getting less medical and nursing care throughout your stay. Fewer MRIs and CT scans, fewer medications, even fewer bedside visits from doctors. A DNR could cost you your life.
They even hesitate to put DNR patients in the ICU when they need intensive care.
No wonder patients with DNRs have far worse recovery rates than patients with identical conditions and no DNRs. Women are especially affected.
Hip fracture surgery patients who opt for DNRs reduce their chances of surviving their hospital stay. At Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, researchers found that “mortality was over two times greater” for patients with DNRs than those without them.
DNR means if your heart stops or you can’t breathe, medical staff will let you die naturally, instead of rushing to give you cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Correctly interpreted, a DNR bars just that one procedure, resuscitation. But scientists are discovering that many doctors and nurses take DNR to mean you want end-of-life care only. They misconstrue DNR as Dying Not Recovering.
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Good article.
Surprisingly very little is taught on DNR from both sides. When you go to a lawyer for your living will, the DNR is explained legally, not what it actually means to you.
Yes, this means if you are in a car wreck and you are identified, somehow, as DNR (Like you say it for some reason) you will be the last one out.
I have orders for preservation and care. My wife does not. I have to be around for her orders to be carried out. She doesn’t have a tattoo, it’s not on an medical paperwork, it’s not a bracelet. Now some people have those things, some do not.
For EMR (Electronic Medical Record) the staff and doctors know that EMR is so far off that it can’t be trusted with such life-and-death decisions. Basically, “DNR” is just a checkbox that some sloppy nurse can hit. It means nothing. They operate like it’s not there.
That’s kind of the point of DNRs. The act of resuscitating is very destructive and depending on how long you’re down there can be a lot of permanent damage. I know a doctor who has his DNR tattooed over his heart, he has resuscitated people, he’s helped people recover from it, he’s made a decision.
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Daughters of the Nigerian Revolution?
I have been told that signing for donating your organs narrows down your survival rate.
And don't get me started about the lizard people and their hunger for raw innards.
No it isn’t, in the article does a pretty good job of explaining that.
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I won’t sign a DNR or an organ donor card.
I’ve read somewhere that if you’re over 70 years old and have multiple medical issues a DNR is what many doctors elect for themselves rather than suffer he agonizing consequences of a lack thereof. Just sayin’.
It is. Some people might not realize that, but that’s what it is.
“Fewer MRIs and CT scans, fewer medications, even fewer bedside visits from doctors. “
Fewer bills
I think DNR election had a direct bearing on the timing of my Mother’s death in the nursing home. They barely communicated to me and I think they knew her condition was much worse than they were letting on to me. They called me at two AM telling me that they thought she was in her “last stages”. It took me ten minutes to get there and she was already gone when I arrived. I really think she was dead when they called me. I was very upset the way it happened, but there was really nothing I could do or say.
When my father was going down that last mile at age 86 his doctor warned me not to call 911 if Dad goes down again. The doctor told me that the paramedics would break the bones in his chest and Dad would die in pain.
So true. Also, if they ask you if you have an end-of-life doula, it helps make those cruel health insurers pay more!
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I have heard that form multiple sources.
Until I can have my organs auctioned off to provide for my family after my demise ain’t no one getting them.
This is shoddy journalism. And it is not cause and effect.
People who have signed DNRs are more likely to be a lot less healthy going into a hip fracture.
This is a POS article slamming the medical field. DNR patients get antibiotics and many other kinds of healthcare.
Seriously shoddy crap.
Properly done CPR breaks the bones most of the time. The rib cage is there to keep things from messing with the heart, the goal of CPR is to mess with the heart. If your bones are really really healthy and pliable they might not break, they’ll still hurt like hell though.
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