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Prehospital emergency treatment of palliative care patients with cardiac arrest: a retrolective investigation
Supportive Care in Cancer, 10/13/09

Wiese CHR et al. – Strategic and therapeutic approaches in outpatient palliative care patients with cardiac arrest differ depending on medical qualification. Although many of these patients do not wish to be resuscitated, resuscitation was started independent of the presence of advance directive. To reduce legal insecurity and to avoid resuscitation and a possible lengthening of the dying process, advance directives and/or "Do not attempt resuscitation" orders should be more readily available and should be adhered to more closely.

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