Medical News Today reports that Do-Not-Resuscitate orders are linked to much poorer outcomes compared to patients who are resuscitated, regardless of the urgency of the clinical procedure, researchers ...

Some emergency medical responders in Washington state have been given more legal leeway to refuse to resuscitate terminally ill patients who want to die, as long as the patient has "compelling reasons ...

Patients undergoing surgery with do-not-resuscitate orders are more likely to experience postoperative complications or mortality, signaling DNR orders as an independent risk factor for poor surgical ...

BOISE, Idaho — Hospitals in Idaho have not instituted an across-the-board practice to stop giving CPR to patients on the brink of death, officials say, despite an outline for crisis care standards ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among high-risk patients, discussion of do-not-resuscitate orders should take place prior to hospitalization, as ...

A new study could help people with a do-not-resuscitate order make better decisions about what surgeries they are willing to undergo. About seven in 10 Americans die with such an order, which ...

The use of do-not-resuscitate orders is increasing, and patients who sign them are increasing the odds that they’ll die even if they're having non-emergency surgery, according to a report published ...

Researchers found only 26 percent of cardiology programs have formal policies governing physicians’ regard for patients’ do-not-resuscitate wishes, a study published Aug. 10 in the Journal of the ...

Whether a sick patient with a “do not resuscitate” order still gets CPR might depend on where that patient is hospitalized. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania surveyed 141 intensive care ...

Only around 1 in 5 very sick older patients has a 'do not resuscitate' decision recorded at the time of their emergency admission to hospital, reveals a study at one large UK hospital and published ...

WASHINGTON — Two Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center employees left their jobs after they were implicated in the botched decision not to try to revive a patient suffering cardiac arrest, a ...