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To: null and void

If you only realized the futility of resuscitation efforts. The percentages of recovery are really bad, and those that we CAN save, usually end up brain-damaged and die a short time later anyway.

Full life-support measures are only effective long-term on young, healthy people that have an accident that caused their code.


39 posted on 12/31/2008 10:41:19 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: clee1

*shrug* YMMV


43 posted on 12/31/2008 10:55:47 AM PST by null and void (Petroglyphs. The original cliffs notes...)
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To: clee1
Full life-support measures are only effective long-term on young, healthy people that have an accident that caused their code.

There are always exceptions to every rule. My mother, at 71 coded in the hospital, was rushed to ICU and put on life support. After 9 days the doc called the family in and said they had done all they could do and was going to remove life support. Wanted us all there so if there was anything we wanted to say or ask, time would be limited......2 hours to 2 days probably.

Within half an hour of taking her off, she was sitting up in a chair, feeding herself. A few days later she went home and lived 2 more years. She died from an unrelated condition. She also showed NO effects from the experience, she was as she had always been.

47 posted on 12/31/2008 11:12:48 AM PST by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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