Do-not-resuscitate orders for pediatric patients who require anesthesia and surgery

Pediatrics

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1686-1692

  Fallat, Mary E ^a   Deshpande, Jayant K ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Cardiac arrest; Children; Pediatric surgery; Pediatrics; Respiratory arrest; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SURGEON; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PEDIATRICS; SURGERY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; RESUSCITATION; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SURGERY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 14644389309     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-2119     Document Type: Review

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