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When to Stop CPR?

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Update 1990

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((UICM,volume 10))

Abstract

Basic life support techniques (BLS) and more advanced therapies for emergency treatment and stabilization of patients in the postarrest phase (ACLS) are well known to emergency physicians and intensivists. The medicolegal considerations of resuscitation, namely the obligation to provide, and the indications for withholding or withdrawing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) [1] are less familiar to most health care providers.

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  1. M. Gauthier
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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean Louis Vincent (Clinical Director) (Clinical Director)

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Gauthier, M., Lacroix, J. (1990). When to Stop CPR?. In: Vincent, J.L. (eds) Update 1990. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84125-5_66

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