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The experience that victims of a cardiac arrest can be resuscitated has raised fundamental ethical questions about whom to resuscitate and whom not to resuscitate.
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Bossaert, L. (1994). Ethical Issues in Resuscitation. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1994. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1994, vol 1994. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85068-4_37
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