Doctors resort to heart failure to do so called CPR. This usually involves calling a full medical team quickly and then doing breathing assistance by placing an oral tube to the lungs and helping the heart by repeatedly pressing the chest with different medications. Electric shocks or pacemakers may be used.
This recovery is very important in patients who have been in good health prior to cardiac arrest and then have had an emergency and have stopped the heart. For example, a 50-year-old man has a heart attack that has stopped his heart. Such a patient is expected to respond to CPR.
In other cases, when the patient has multiple organ failure, the recovery benefit may be much lower, so that in some cases the recovery benefit is close to zero. For example, an intensive care patient on respirators, dialysis and severe hypotension despite multiple blood pressure medications, the patient's response to recovery is virtually nonexistent.
It is no secret that the recovery is a great hardship on the patient's body and such hardship justified if it will save his life. If the recovery is useless and ends with the death of the patient, does it justify resuscitation at the same time, leading to hardship for the dying patient such as repeated electrical shocks?
This recovery is very important in patients who have been in good health prior to cardiac arrest and then have had an emergency and have stopped the heart. For example, a 50-year-old man has a heart attack that has stopped his heart. Such a patient is expected to respond to CPR.
In other cases, when the patient has multiple organ failure, the recovery benefit may be much lower, so that in some cases the recovery benefit is close to zero. For example, an intensive care patient on respirators, dialysis and severe hypotension despite multiple blood pressure medications, the patient's response to recovery is virtually nonexistent.
It is no secret that the recovery is a great hardship on the patient's body and such hardship justified if it will save his life. If the recovery is useless and ends with the death of the patient, does it justify resuscitation at the same time, leading to hardship for the dying patient such as repeated electrical shocks?
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