Patients undergoing surgery with do-not-resuscitate orders are more likely to experience postoperative complications or mortality, signaling DNR orders as an independent risk factor for poor surgical ...

The Royal College of Nursing has warned that ‘extremely dangerous’ corridor care conditions is putting lives at risk.

The U.K.’s Royal College of Physicians found in an audit of 9,000 dying patients that one in five families were not informed of “do not resuscitate” orders, according to The Telegraph. If this ...

Giving adrenaline to hospital patients whose heart has stopped is very effective, and can increase the chance of bringing ...

Healthcare professionals are ethically obliged to do all they can to ensure the survival of their patients. But in some instances, some physicians are willing to go the extra mile and attempt to ...

WASHINGTON — Two Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center employees left their jobs after they were implicated in the botched decision not to try to revive a patient suffering cardiac arrest, a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Hoping to reduce confusion about when paramedics must try to resuscitate patients who may not want help, the state is offering a new form that people can use to spell out ...

HARRISON COUNTY, Ohio — WVU Medicine Harrison Community Hospital is making improvements to patient transport, thanks to new technology. The hospital's EMS department has a new ambulance – a third for ...