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The author argues that CPR is often futile in terminal non-cardiovascular diseases and that DNR orders should not be automatically cancelled for palliative procedures requiring general anaesthesia.
Patients don't want futile care, including CPR and they do want Palliative Care. Since CPR is highly ineffective and futile in patients dying of non-cardiovascular diseases, it no longer has a role in routine hospital care. Palliative Care procedures that require general anaesthesia should not require the cancellation of DNR orders since only CPR is being limited. As Clinicians we must accept that the only requisite for life is death and that providing Palliative Care at the end of life is our clinical obligation and privilege".
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