Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Elderly: Defining the Limits of Appropriateness.
The prevailing policy of treating people to their death and to resuscitate victims of cardiopulmonary arrest regardless of their health status is both inhumane and irrational. In this review we will explore how to change this wasteful high technology-driven, death-denying culture into one that accepts the eventuality of dying.
Basta
Lofty L.
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Division of Cardiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Plunkitt
Kenneth
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Shasby
Ron
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Gamouras
George
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