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This form instructs emergency medical personnel and other health care professionals to forgo resuscitation attempts and to permit the patient to have a natural death with peace and dignity.
I direct health care professionals acting in out-of-hospital settings, including a hospital emergency department, not to initiate or continue for the person: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), transcutaneous cardiac pacing, defibrillation, advanced airway management, artificial ventilation.
The Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate program allows people to decide that certain resuscitative measures will not be used on them. Those resuscitative measures specifically listed in the OOH DNR legislation are cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), advanced airway management, defibrillation, artificial ventilations, and transcutaneous cardiac ...
Introduction. Out of Hospital Do Not Resuscitate Form. What is it? The Out of Hospital Do Not Resuscitate (OOH DNR) order allows you to refuse specific life-sustaining treatments outside of the hospital. These treatments include: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) Advanced airway management (intubation) Defibrillation (AED) Artificial ventilation.
Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate (OOH-DNR) Order — This form instructs emergency medical personnel and other health care professionals to forgo resuscitation attempts and to permit the patient to have a natural death with peace and dignity. This order does NOT affect the provision of other emergency care including comfort care.
An Out-of-Hospital DNR is a legal form that tells emergency medical professionals not to start or continue certain life-saving procedures. DNR is short for “do not resuscitate.” Resuscitation is when someone who has stopped breathing and whose heart has stopped beating is restored to consciousness
A Texas do not resuscitate (DNR) order form allows a patient to willfully decline life-saving treatment if they experience cardiac arrest or respiratory failure. The order informs emergency medical personnel that the individual does not wish to receive CPR or other treatments.