Since entering the hospital in Hollywood on Oct . 12, he has undergone lung cancer surgery, nearly succumbed to infectious pneumonia four times, received last rites, had a Do Not Resuscitate order posted on his bed and awakened from a coma.
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On January 22, the Board released its decision, holding that the course of action in the child's " best interests " would be " removal of the endotracheal tube without replacement, a Do Not Resuscitate order and palliative care ."
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"The Do Not Resuscitate Order meets a test that the living will does not meet _ a physician has made the determination that the the person is terminal, " said Freida Travis, program administrator at the Bureau of EMS in the Florida Department of Health.
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Ask your doctor to file out a Comfort Care / Do Not Resuscitate Order : If you are seriously ill and do not want to be revived if your heart stops, your doctor, physician's assistant, or nurse practitioner may issue a " do not resuscitate " order.
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If the patient has indicated in an advance health care directive that they do not wish to receive mechanical ventilation or has specified a do not resuscitate order and the patient has also indicated that they wish to donate their organs, some vital organs such as the heart and lungs may not be able to be recovered.
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Euthanasia advocacy in the U . S . peaked again during the 1930s and diminished significantly during and after World War II . Euthanasia efforts were revived during the 1960s and 1970s, under the right-to-die rubric, physician assisted death in liberal bioethics, and through advance directives and do not resuscitate orders.
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In 1987, state in the United States to effectively end the practice by enacting legislation to require medical staff to honour a patient's refusal of cardiopulmonary resuscitation or a do not resuscitate order, and to grant civil and criminal immunity to those who do so or those who perform CPR without knowledge of the order.
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Instead " Once and Again " limned the drama through events on its periphery _ Lily arguing with Phil shortly before his stroke about her ex-husband's role in the family business; her daughter Grace rehearsing lines from a school play for Phil in his hospital bed; the decision by Phil's wife and daughters to sign a do not resuscitate order.
