I agree. We need to teach staff when to stop... as well as when to start
resuscitation.
Ray McGlone
Lancaster
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rowley Cottingham" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: deceased skills training
> I would go further. I am increasingly concerned at the number of clearly
futile resuscitation
> attempts that drag on and on through cycle after cycle, often on children
or young adults because
> people are not brave enough to say that the person is dead. I regard this
as abuse of the newly
> dead, and I have intervened countless times to stop them.
>
> Rowley Cottingham.
>
> Consultant in Emergency Medicine.
>
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