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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I recently spoke with a ER doctor about my 75-year-old mother's wishes about resuscitation. He told me that across the entire population (so, old/young, healthy/unhealthy) the success rate for CPR is only 10-13%. It's also hugely traumatic to the body, particularly for an elderly person.

This shocked me. Like another poster said, I think we have a misperception from tv/movies about how successful and tame some medical procedures are. This doctor suggested it would be more humane NOT to do the full code. Intellectually I agree, although it's a terrible decision to make. [/quote]

The stats on CPR are even worse than that; it’s hardly ever successful in the field and even in a hospital setting with a full code team, CPR is only successful <10% of the time and the vast majority of resuscitation success stories are left permanently incapacitated after the resuscitation. A very very  small percent like 2% actually fully recover and walk out of the hospital like on Grey's Anatomy and other medical TV dramas.[/quote]

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