Should We Always Offer CPR?

May we always have access to the patient desires described in the article. But when we don't (and arrive on the scene being confronted with someone in arrest), my trained answer is simple. Yes.

It depends. There are way too many separate issues regarding giving a blanket yes no answer. I'd a client has a do not resuscitate (DNR) order in their chart, does that become null and void if they agree to surgery. That is just one example.

This is why I have a living will and health care proxy. I don't want to sit around wasting resources when the end is certain or I'm a vegetable. It was the Terri Schiavo case that really got my wife and I to consider how we wanted to go out.