'Do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation' or 'allowing natural death'? The time for resuscitation community to review its boundaries and its terminology

Resuscitation

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1644-1645

  Xanthos, Theodoros ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Society of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; DEATH; DYING; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARREST; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHICS; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NOMENCLATURE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; TERMINAL CARE; TRENDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84908228516     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.09.012     Document Type: Editorial

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