Do-not-resuscitate orders in the operating room: Required reconsideration

Military Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 524-527

  Smith, Kimberly Ann ^a  

^a Winn Army Community Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HISTORY; LIVING WILL; MEDICAL ETHICS; OPERATING ROOM; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 0033911345     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/165.7.524     Document Type: Article

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