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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That's not even close to my experience.............
Yep..!! Good post..........
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