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ArticlePalliative medicine reports2020

Advances in Cardiopulmonary Life-Support Change the Meaning of What It Means to be Resuscitated.

Leslie C Avant, Carolyn E Kezar, Keith M Swetz

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Article in Palliative medicine reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 0 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Leslie C AvantDepartment of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Carolyn E KezarDepartment of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Keith M SwetzDepartment of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Birmingham VA Medical Center · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As options for advanced cardiopulmonary support proliferate, the use of mechanical circulatory support, such as left ventricular assist device as destination therapy (LVAD-DT), is becoming increasingly commonplace. In the current case, a patient was hospitalized for complications related to his LVAD-DT requests "full code" status, despite a clinician's warning that performing chest compressions may damage the LVAD device or vascular structures leading to poor outcome. This discussion explores the ethical and legal considerations regarding a patient request for cardiopulmonary resuscitation when limited options for survival or further treatment are available.

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PMID34223459
PMCPMC8241316
OpenAlexW3033938921

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