'Lansley must listen to nurses on the front line' Musings Part 6: What if Grandfather wishes to refuse attempted CPR only under certain circumstances ?
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What is likely to happen, if grandfather decides to qualify his refusal of CPR ? Suppose that Grandfather wants ‘for CPR to be attempted, if you can be reasonably certain that I will be as healthy after any CPR attempt, as I was before the CPA’. Can he successfully write on an Advance Decision, ‘I am forbidding CPR if it appears that the CPA is linked to a stroke’ ?
In general, Grandfather would be considering how healthy he would probably be after a CPA and a CPR attempt which ‘successfully’ resuscitated him, and deciding if that appeared better than being dead. Is it possible, for such a ‘conditional ADRT’ to be both written, and also acted on by any clinicians who might be considering whether to attempt CPR ?
