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The POLST document is a standardized, portable, brightly colored single page medical order that documents a conversation between a provider and an individual with a serious illness or frailty towards the end of life. A POLST form allows emergency medical services to provide treatment that the individual prefers before possibly transporting to ...
The MOLST Program is a New York State initiative that facilitates end-of-life medical decision-making. One goal of the MOLST Program is to ensure that decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment are made in accordance with the patient's wishes, or, if the patient's wishes are not reasonably known and cannot with reasonable diligence be ascertained, in accordance with the ...
A do-not-resuscitate order (DNR), also known as Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR), Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR [3]), no code [4] [5] or allow natural death, is a medical order, written or oral depending on the jurisdiction, indicating that a person should not receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if that person's heart stops beating. [5]
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The names of the other physician orders (MOST or POLST forms) vary by state. In some states, [which?] it is called a MOST form (Medical Order for Scope of Treatment), and in others, [which?] it is called a POLST (Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment) form. These medical treatment preference documents are critical, especially for the ...
The 1986 proposal to recognize brain death was opposed by organizations that viewed it as an intellectually dishonest means to end life-sustaining treatment for comatose patients in violation of their civil and religious rights.
Alta Fixsler suffered a severe brain injury at birth and her doctors say she cannot breathe, eat or drink without sophisticated medical treatment. Life-sustaining treatment can be withdrawn from ...
The son of a man who is “minimally conscious” in hospital has said he “cannot accept” the prospect of a judge ruling that his father’s life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn.