Missed Opportunity to Avoid a Futility Conflict

Check out minute 12:00 in this PBS film. UCLA ICU physician Ravi Aysola has a critically ill patient. If this patient arrests, the chance that CPR will restore the patient to a functioning level is less than 1%. But the family does not consent to the DNR order. 



I realize that the PBS film captures only a piece of the physician-family interaction. But, unfortunately, it looks like the family does not really understand what they are being asked.



 

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