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I am seeing a lot of scare stories and tweets about DNRs and I think there might be a lot of misinformation about what DNRs are and entail. I have learned about them from end-of-life support training but it would be really good if someone with medical training could do...
Some info on them. Having a DNR is actually an incredibly useful thing for many vulnerable and elderly people; it means that if their heart has stopped they won't be subjected to painful and often futile resuscitation methods. It does not mean "leave to die".
If any medically trained people could expand on this for me, I would be grateful as a lot of people are getting very scared about their loved ones. Whereas outside of the Pandemic I think they would be grateful some relatives had them in place.
There have literally be stories in the past of elderly people getting DNR tattoos because they are so scared of doctors or loved ones insisting on resuscitation attempts at end of life.
