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Whenever there are technologic advances in medicine, there are necessarily questions concerning their appropriate use. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a noteworthy exception to this statement. Questions about CPR concern the appropriateness of not using it. Developed as a means to respond to sudden, unexpected cardiac or respiratory arrest, CPR has given rise to a technologic imperative that mandates its use and which has spawned a sizable body of medical, legal, and bioethical literature, as well as institutional policies and procedures pertaining to decisions not to use it. In New York State, the Governor’s Task Force on Life and the Law has even issued a proposal for legislation governing such decisions [4].
This article is reprinted with the permission of the The New York State Journal of Medicine 86, 618–620, December 1986.
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Greenlaw, J. (1995). Where are We Going with Do-Not-Resuscitate Policies?. In: Baker, R., Strosberg, M.A., Bynum, J. (eds) Legislating Medical Ethics. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8593-4_5
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