by Lucy Karp | Nov 30, 2023 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation
In general, the public perception of CPR is filled with inaccuracies, and recently the New Yorker wrote about the Hidden Harms of CPR. In the article, Dr. Sunita Puir, a palliative care doctor, talks about how it is an “open secret in medicine that CPR is brutal and...
by Michael Wong, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman | Apr 11, 2019 | cardiac arrest, Critical Care, Grand Round Summaries, Patient Advocacy, Resuscitation
In this two-part series, Dr. Michael Wong begins by reviewing a rational and patient-centered approach to difficult discussions in the Emergency Department around goals of care and resuscitation. In part two, we discuss the process for obtaining consent for incapable...
