DNR & Airway Obstruction Cardiac Arrest

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asked 7 months ago

During a cardiac arrest caused by an airway obstruction, would you treat this as an unusual circumstance, do one analysis, and transport due to the DNR being for their medical conditions or would you honor the DNR and provide no chest compressions?

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answered 7 months ago

Thank you for your question. I think we can extrapolate this question to DNR with any potential reversible cause. This situation brings an ethical dilemma because the patient has now experienced a death secondary to something that was not a part of their disease process. Regardless of this, the patient obviously has made a decision to be a DNR due to medical or social reasons and because of this, I would honour the DNR.