• Critical care medicine · Feb 1989

    Decision not to treat: "do not resuscitate" order for the burn patient in the acute setting.

    • J Hammond and C G Ward.
    • Department of Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33101.
    • Crit. Care Med. 1989 Feb 1;17(2):136-8.

    AbstractFor some burn victims who are recognized early to be nonsurvivors, the decision to "make comfortable" is a treatment option. The guidelines for a "do not resuscitate" order must be based on an individual center's experience, but general principles can be formulated.

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