DNR, DNAR, or AND? Is Language Important? Article

PMID: 22190879 Web of Science: 000420230100007

Cited authors

  • Breault, Joseph L.

Abstract

  • The American Heart Association in 2005 moved from the traditional do not resuscitate (DNR) terminology to do not attempt resuscitation (DNAR). DNAR reduces the implication that resuscitation is likely and creates a better emotional environment to explain what the order means. Allow natural death (AND) is the name recommended in some settings to make the meaning even clearer. Most hospitals still use the obsolete DNR term. Medical staffs should consider moving to DNAR and in some settings to AND. Language is important.

Publication date

  • 2011

Published in

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1524-5012

Start page

  • 302

End page

  • 306

Volume

  • 11

Issue

  • 4