Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

cancelled at any time (Understanding Advance Directives, 2006). DNI, may be asked for along with the DNR, is the placement of tubes through a person’s nose or mouth to enter the windpipe to help them breath. This is the refusal of any techniques of resuscitation (Understanding Advance Directives, 2006). Artificial nutrition and hydration are getting nutritious to the body through tubes because the person can no longer use their mouth to eat and drink enough to sustain their life. All of these…

I decided to look more closely at one myself. After considering my recent experience in the nursing lab with practicing and reviewing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and considering the importance of knowing how to do this accurately, I decided to use this as my search term. The systematic review I found to be most interesting was entitled, “Cardiopulmonary…

The four ethical principals that are the base for most medical decisions will aim to provide patient satisfaction and safety as the end result. Justifying the level of importance is based on those principles as they play a big role in deciding whether life-support should be available regardless of chances of recovery. The first principle is the respect for autonomy. This principal cites that the patient has the right to choose, which is problematic when they are in a futile state. As a…

Anthony Raykh Mrs. Alan Gym 2/28/2016 There are a variety of career options in the field of sport, physical fitness, and recreation. After researching these fields, the careers of physical therapy, coaching boxing, and personal trainers stuck out. To begin, physical therapists help people with physical injuries or illnesses to regain range of movement and control their pain. Physical therapists help people who have lost motor functions for any reason. They usually help people by creating plans…

unresponsive. The first reaction is to call 911 and then perform CPR but if there is no knowledge on how to perform CPR then the person could die. CPR can save a person's life if they quit breathing and if they're heart quits beating. CPR means Cardiopulmonary Recitation. The word cardio means heart, pulmonary means lung, and recitate means bring back to life. People usually stop breathing if they are drowning, suffocating, choking, electrocuted, or if they have a heart attack. CPR helps…

instantly or soon after symptom development (American Heart Association [AHA], 2014-a). Defibrillation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR are well-documented variables in predicting poor OHCA outcomes (Bur et al. 2001). CPR is the method of compressing a patient’s chest at 100 beats per minute, providing adequate blood flow to the body’s vital organs, preserving life (New Zealand Resuscitation Council, 2010). Defibrillation is the delivery of an electric impulse across the heart to…

Every second, of every day someone dies for the lack of CPR and First Aid training knowledge. How could this be? I mean most people have gone through many years of post-secondary education, but still so many lives are taken away. You go through all of your schooling, paying upwards of $100,000 but still no education on how to save an innocent person’s life. Shouldn’t everyone have the chance to be saved? People should not have to pay for CPR classes when they are older to learn the basic CPR…

sternum just above. Slide the heel of the other hand down to meet them.’’ (See Appendix 6) I also learned body size is significant when performing chest compressions. The sternum should be compressed approximately 4-5cm for a normal-sized adult’’ (Resuscitation Council UK, 2000a). ‘’Lesser degrees of compression in smaller adults and greater degrees in larger adults’’ (AHA and ILCOR,…

One may ask, what kind of nurse are you? For some nurses the answer is clear, for others that answer may not be quite so simple. There are those who will go their entire career without truly knowing or finding out what they truly want to do. You will have nurses that will always want to continue to grow and develop in their role, always aspiring to follow paths to help them grow and you will have others that will stay in the same positon for their entire career. One thing all nurses have in…

Having family members present during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and invasive bedside procedures remains a controversial topic in clinical nursing practice for the hospitalized high-acuity patient. Family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (FPDR) is a complex ethical dilemma in modern medicine. Historically, before the development of Intensive Care Units (ICU’s), death occurred at home in a family-centered environment (Doolin, Quinn, Bryant, Lyons, & Kleinpell, 2011). As…