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Will We Code for Default ECMO?
Brauner, Daniel J; Zimmermann, Christopher J.
Affiliation
  • Brauner DJ; An associate professor of medicine in the Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the University of Chicago, where he is also the co-director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics Consultation Service.
  • Zimmermann CJ; A general surgery resident at the School of Medicine and Public Health in the Department of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an American College of Surgeons-MacLean Center surgical ethics fellow.
AMA J Ethics ; 21(5): E443-449, 2019 05 01.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31127925
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation has become the default treatment for all patients who suffer cardiac arrest. The history of how this came to be suggests the clinical and ethical importance of establishing more humane and appropriate indications for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and other aggressive therapies for patients at the end of life.
Subject(s)

Full text: 1 Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Clinical Coding / Standard of Care Limits: Humans Language: En Journal: AMA J Ethics Year: 2019 Type: Article

Full text: 1 Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Clinical Coding / Standard of Care Limits: Humans Language: En Journal: AMA J Ethics Year: 2019 Type: Article