Patient Education material due to Shavio case

[danu3]

Given the recent Shavio case, those of us in health care probably need to dispell lots of distortions that came with this case to the patients whom we serve.

The following sites might be helpful in terms of patient educational material that some of us can use.

http://www.mywhatever.com/cifwriter/library/mortals/mor0.html

Handbook for Mortals. Whole range of topics from spirituality to CPR to tube feeding.

http://www.permanente.net/kaiser/pdf/20944.pdf

CPR Q&A for patients (answer questions like sucess rates and so on).

http://www.permanente.net/kaiser/pages/c6145-15230.html

Dr. Menkin's site who has a special interests in palliative care. A number of forms and patient educational material (including the Handbook for Mortals and the CPR Q&A).

-Dan

[begalli]

Very good idea Dan!

Maybe some of us can educate ourselves as well.

:)

p.s. the Handbook for Mortals looks interesting!

[danu3]

Very good idea Dan!

Maybe some of us can educate ourselves as well.

:)

p.s. the Handbook for Mortals looks interesting!

Yea, the handbook is interesting. What I like about it is that it is simple and in plain English. Sort of get to the point. The CPR statistic is interesting to me too, I didn't know it was that low.