Patient's resuscitation - Should nurses have the final say?
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Pankaj Goswami.
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# According to new guidelines from BMA to health professionals, 'suitably experienced nurses' will be able to decide if a dying patient should be resuscitated.
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# The Patients Association welcomed the move, saying nurses were better placed than doctors to know patients' wishes.
# Patients' groups criticised the move, calling it 'another nail in the coffin' of the safety of the elderly and vulnerable which would condemn many to an 'early death sentence'.
# In real life the survival rate after a patient has received resuscitation is relatively low.
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