Gina Piscitello
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Yeah, I think that's a really good point.
And when we've looked at this in the past about why are people doing slow quotes to begin with, some people say it's like to help support the family.
But a lot of people are saying it's for legal reasons, that they feel that their state laws are obligating them to perform CPR.
So even in that situation that you mentioned about, like, your head being in one spot, your body being in another, right?
You know, like, could people interpret that to be like, oh, I need, you know, if your EMS arriving at the site, do I need like the medical director to tell me not to do a code in this situation?
So I think a lot of it is legal.
And the doctors who are deciding to do these slow codes, they're doing it because they feel like they are obligated to do
by their state law.
Yeah.
I recently worked on a study that looked at unilateral decision-making that would include physicians.
When are they allowed to say, I'm not going to provide CPR?
In every state, they are wildly different in how they approach these things.
Sometimes it has to be totally physiologically futile for you to be able to withhold CPR.
Others, it's more broad.
It's like for your conscience.
If the physician's conscience goes against your conscience to provide CPR, they can withhold it.
But there are some states like North Carolina, they do not have anything in their statute saying that it's okay for a clinician to withhold or withdraw, like any treatment like CPR.
So physicians in those settings, they might feel very uncomfortable doing it.
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