Palliative Care Resuscitation looks at the main issues surrounding CPR in palliative care, bringing together the various complex strands in one easy-to-read resource.

Features:

• The resuscitation guidelines produced by the Resuscitation Council (UK), the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing
• Expected success rates, and how the nurse-patient-doctor relationship can influence sometimes inappropriate CPR decisions
• How cultural and religious influences can also affect how a patient and their family may deal with CPR and other end of life decisions, and the legal and ethical issues pertaining to CPR and a good death

Contents

1. The history of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
2. CPR versus active treatment in palliative care
3. Resuscitation guidelines, resuscitation success and futility, and medical paternalism in resuscitation decisions
4. Cultural and Religious Influences, including the ‘sick role’, on healthcare and resuscitation decisions
5. The role of the nurse, and the nurse-doctor-patient relationship in resuscitation decisions
6. Making resuscitation decisions: involving the patient and their family carers
7. Hope in patients who are palliative and have had a DNAR order made
8. The Law and Ethics surrounding resuscitation
9. Resuscitation in the community
10. The future of resuscitation

Index

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