The ethics of resuscitation: How do paramedics experience ethical dilemmas when faced with cancer patients with cardiac arrest?

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 64-70

  Nordby, Halvor ^a,b   Nøhr, Eyvind ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

cancer; cardiac arrest; communications; do not resuscitate order; emergency; ethical; paramedic; prehospital; resuscitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862086403     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X1200026X     Document Type: Article

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