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Bakersfield nurse refuses CPR, elderly patient dies
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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 583175" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>According to ABC World News with Diane Sawyer it would have been very unlikely that anyone would have been sued over doing CPR on this woman. However it is true that nurses often have a different view. I remember my old neighbor who was a nurse thought it was awful that we allowed a hospital to put a feeding tube in my mother when she could no longer eat because of a neurological disorder. Many years later I now agree with her but at the time we wanted to do everything we could to keep her alive.</p><p></p><p>Interesting story -- in 1996 our family went to the Olympics in Atlanta. One day late in at night as we had just gotten off the train and were waiting for the bus to take us to our hotel very far from the venues, a man collapsed and it was apparent he had a heart attack. He was relatively young, probably in his 40's, and it was very very hot. We couldn't just let him die there, no one else was around. We were trained in CPR because we had tobe in order to adopt our daughter. My husband started CPR and just then another passenger came by who was a doctor and he helped and by the time the ambulance got there the man was revived. We went on our way, got on the bus and of course easy child and difficult child were both talking about it and other passengers overheard and clapped for husband.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 583175, member: 59"] According to ABC World News with Diane Sawyer it would have been very unlikely that anyone would have been sued over doing CPR on this woman. However it is true that nurses often have a different view. I remember my old neighbor who was a nurse thought it was awful that we allowed a hospital to put a feeding tube in my mother when she could no longer eat because of a neurological disorder. Many years later I now agree with her but at the time we wanted to do everything we could to keep her alive. Interesting story -- in 1996 our family went to the Olympics in Atlanta. One day late in at night as we had just gotten off the train and were waiting for the bus to take us to our hotel very far from the venues, a man collapsed and it was apparent he had a heart attack. He was relatively young, probably in his 40's, and it was very very hot. We couldn't just let him die there, no one else was around. We were trained in CPR because we had tobe in order to adopt our daughter. My husband started CPR and just then another passenger came by who was a doctor and he helped and by the time the ambulance got there the man was revived. We went on our way, got on the bus and of course easy child and difficult child were both talking about it and other passengers overheard and clapped for husband. [/QUOTE]
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