A patient arrives in the ER with a “thumper” piston-driven device providing CPR to an 82 year old client who was found unresponsive on the floor at home-possibly from a sudden ventricular Cardiac event. The ER just received a DNR from a prior hospitalization for a UTI. The family is insisting the patient wants everything done. How do you think the staff should proceed?


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