Living wills and resuscitation preferences in an elderly population.
She provides an historical account of the legal milestones concerning ' incompetent ' patients and issues of resuscitation.
Indications for implantation were resuscitation from documented hypotensive ventricular tachycardia in one pt and recurrent syncope of suspected cardiac origin in the remaining 3 pts.
Legislation is advocated to eradicate agism with respect to the resuscitation status of older people.
Such decisions, as with those for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, may need to be reviewed in the light of changing clinical circumstances.
When the kappa coefficient was calculated, "uncertain" was treated as "yes" for resuscitation.
Clinically, of course, resuscitation is a yes or no decision.
Saturation in the superior caval vein and right ventricle, and transoesophageal echocardiography after cardiac resuscitation, confirmed correction of the defect.
