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Conditional Support and Allow Natural Death: This allows patients, if competent, or if not, healthcare surrogates, next of kin, or legal guardians to determine with the advice of the patient's physician s which interventions to utilize to restore or maintain function as the patient's needs change.
Other measures can and will be done as deemed appropriate unless the patient suffers a cardiac or respiratory arrest in which case no CPR or chest compressions will be performed and the patient will be allowed to die naturally. Comfort Support and Allow Natural Death: This allows patients, if competent, or if not, healthcare surrogates, next of kin or legal guardians to determine with the advice of the patient's physician s that therapeutic measures will be used to alleviate suffering and maximize the comfort and dignity of the patient.
As with the Conditional Support, no CPR or chest compressions will be performed if the patient suffers cardiac arrest or respiratory arrest. The focus is on providing care needed to enhance comfort, dignity and a sense of wellbeing. Examples of comfort support measures may be morphine or other pain management and oxygen PRN.
Healthcare providers will allow the patient to die naturally while providing comfort and support to both patient and family. The following are words you may hear during treatment for your loved one: CPR -- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.
This can include artificial breathing, chest compressions and electrical shocks defibrillation. Defibrillation -- Electrical shocks sent through the chest wall to the heart.
Vasopressors -- A group of drugs used to raise a patient's blood pressure, which necessitates close monitoring by staff. Tube feeding -- A means of artificial eating nutrition and hydration drinking.