NHS too quick to rescusitate acutely ill people

1 June 2012  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18278110 Some of the most frail elderly patients are suffering “distressing” deaths because hospitals wrongly try to resuscitate them, a watchdog says. The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death reviewed the care given to 585 acutely-ill patients who ended up having a cardiac arrest. The watchdog concluded that cardiopulmonary resuscitation […]