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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Elderly: Defining the Limits of Appropriateness
Lofty L. Basta1, Kenneth Plunkitt, Ron Shasby
1Division of Cardiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
The American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology
|June 21, 2001
Abstract:
The prevailing policy of treating people to their death and to resuscitate victims of cardiopulmonary arrest regardless of their health status is both inhumane and irrational. In this review we will explore how to change this wasteful high technology-driven, death-denying culture into one that accepts the eventuality of dying.