Question

Patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) should not receive CPR.

For this activity, you will weigh in on the RN’s ethical obligation when providing care to patients with EVD and the performance of CPR.

Initial Discussion Post:

Address the ethical and potential safety issues.

Answer 1

The ethical implications of patients with CPR. And their denial are heavy. For a registered nurse, it is important that the patients should be receiving utmost care till their last breath. There are many misconceptions regarding patients receiving Ebola, which are as follows:

• The fact the resuscitation will not be helpful
• The idea that people having cardiac arrest are futile and cannot be saved
• Requirement of PPE which may delay efforts of resuscitation

There may be chances of recovery for the patient to as cardiac arrest could be reversible and prognosis will not be futile. Also, as a rule, Ebola patients have a personnel with full protection, to evade any delays on resuscitation. Also, if the patient is not provided cpr, it might be non maleficent for the patient and would be negligent. Hence, the patients should be receiving cpr.