Table 1.
Patient responses to a series of general statements
|
Agree |
Neither agree or disagree |
Disagree |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly | Some-what | Some-what | Strongly | ||
| Preoperative DNR requests should be suspended for surgical procedures |
131 (32%) |
104 (25%) |
62 (15%) |
40 (10%) |
58 (14%) |
| Requests not to be resuscitated should always be discussed between patient and surgeon or anesthesiologist |
309 (74%) |
74 (18%) |
17 (4%) |
5 (1%) |
4 (<1%) |
| Decisions about intraoperative resuscitation should be left up to surgeons and anesthesiologists alone because patients cannot fully understand the complexities involved with a surgical process |
87 (21%) |
94 (23%) |
28 (7%) |
54 (13%) |
137 (33%) |
| The type of surgical procedure should influence whether a patient’s request not to be resuscitated is followed |
113 (28%) |
115 (28%) |
61 (15%) |
32 (8%) |
75 (18%) |
| If a patient’s request to forgo resuscitation is suspended for a surgical procedure, it should be reinstated at a predetermined point following anesthesia recovery. | 206 (50%) | 120 (29%) | 50 (12%) | 10 (2%) | 8 (2%) |