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Do Not Resuscitate Guide Form Software
This guide supplies information about prehospital do-not-resuscitate (DNR) programs. DNR programs authorize emergency responders to withhold certain medical treatment, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Emergency responders in the community, similar to physicians and nurses in a hospital, generally have a duty to provide emergency treatment such as CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) when responding to an emergency. However, some individuals do not want to be resuscitated.
Over one-half of the states have passed legislation or regulations that provide a "prehospital DNR program" by which a physician's DNR order can be honored outside of the hospital setting. This program supplies information on such programs.
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