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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Life Sustaining Treatment (DOC)

   

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Running head: LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENTCardiopulmonary Resuscitation as Life Sustaining TreatmentName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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1LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENTTable of ContentsTopic..........................................................................................................................................2Implication of the Health Care Practise.....................................................................................2Presentation of the Case Study...................................................................................................2Case Study..............................................................................................................................3Interview Questions and Respond..............................................................................................3Conclusion:................................................................................................................................4References..................................................................................................................................5
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2LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENTTopicI am a trainee nurse in the CPU cardiopulmonary unit of Kings Hospital in Australia.In order to illustrate the implications of the health care practise, I have chosen the topic“Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation as Life Sustaining Treatment”Implication of the Health Care PractiseImplications for health care practise are to provide quality care to the patients (Prince,Wu, Guo, Robledo, O'Donnell, Sullivan & Yusuf, 2015). Providing quality care, gains mainattention in the domain of life sustaining treatments. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) isthe central component of the life sustaining treatment (Do, 2015). It is an emergencyprocedure that encompasses chest compression with arterial ventilation. It is basically amanual effort that is undertaken to keep the brain work intact until further drugs are beenadministered to restore the spontaneous circulation of the blood reach different parts of thebody including brain (Pinto, Haden‐Pinneri & Love, 2013). In recent years, CPR has receivedprincipal focus in recent years due to increase in the in evidence of its potential to save livesof the critically ill patient and due to its poor delivery quality by the trained professionals(Abella, 2013). A large number of pre-hospital studies have demonstrated that providingquality CPR and that too promptly can improve the overall survival rate of the cardiac arrest.On the other hands, drug such as epinephrine shows little benefit in the grounds of advancedcardiovascular life support or life sustaining treatments (Abella, 2013).Presentation of the Case StudyNursing is the key profession in the health care (Hoeve, Jansen & Roodbol, 2014).They have a key contribution in the overall well-being of the patient via providing holisticcare (You et al., 2013). In principal determining factors in nursing care is behavior and
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