Resuscitation Orders

  • Futile medicai treatment and patient consent
    Martin L. Smith, STD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 1993, 60 (2) 151-154;

    What are a physician’s ethical responsibilities when a patient or surrogate demands futile life-saving treatment?

  • Forgoing life-supporting or death-prolonging therapy: a policy statement
    James P. Orlowski, MD, Robert L. Collins, MD and Susan N. Cancian, RN
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1993, 60 (1) 81-85;

    The Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s policy offers general and specific guidelines for withdrawing life-sustaining therapy.

  • The effect of do-not-resuscitate orders on length of stay
    George A. Kanoti, STD, William R. Gombeski, MBA, MPH, A. Dale Gulledge, MD, Dale Konrad, MBA, Robert Collins, MD and Sharon V. Medendorp, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1992, 59 (6) 591-594;