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DNR, n. and a. Med. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
Brit. |ˌdiːɛnˈɑː|, U.S. |ˌdiˌɛnˈɑr|
[Initialism ‹ d o not resuscitate.]
A. n.
1. An order prohibiting medical personnel from attempting to resuscitate a patient after cardiac or respiratory arrest. Freq. attrib., designating such an order.
[1976N.Y. Times (Late Jersey ed.) 27 Jan. 35/5 The hospital records of seriously ill patients often contained coded instructions for attending nurses and physicians, such as ‘DNR’, meaning ‘do not resuscitate’ in the event of a respiratory failure.] 1983RN (Nexis) Dec. 21 If a doctor writes ‘Do not resuscitate’ (DNR) or ‘No Code’ on a dying patient's chart, am I legally required to follow the order? 1991K. Spink tr. D. Lapierre Beyond Love iii. xxxiv. 213 Everyone called it the DNR, an abbreviation for ‘Do not resuscitate’. 1994Guardian 5 Oct. (Society section) 2/3 In 1987 New York state passed a law which made it compulsory to ask every patient and obtain his consent to a DNR order in the presence of a witness, usually at admission. 1999R. Green et al. ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ in Sopranos (television shooting script) 2nd Ser. 43, I tried to talk to her about a DNR and she got very agitated and then I noticed that a son, Anthony Soprano has durable power of attorney.
2. A person who requests that medical personnel responsible for his or her care forgo any attempts at resuscitation in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest; a person whose medical chart bears a DNR order.
1988Z. R. Wolf Nurses' Work (1989) ii. 71 When a patient was classified as a DNR, certain therapeutic actions were abandoned. 1992Newsweek 7 Sept. 8/1 You see, Doctor, when I spoke to you I forgot to mention that she's a DNR. 2000Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 1631025/3 ‘Should I call a code blue?’ the nurse asked. ‘No,’ one of the interns answered. ‘He's a DNR.’
B. adj. Of a patient: not to be resuscitated in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest.
1984N.Y. Times 15 Nov. c2/1 They choose to be DNR because they feel that because of age, or severity of sickness, or level of pain, if death should come they would like it to come peacefully. 1989Arch. Internal Med. 1491851 Demographic, medical, and outcome characteristics for 821 do not resuscitate (DNR) patients were compared with 300 age- and sex-matched control patients. 1994Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 2 Mar. 642/1 He is DNR. What are the limits? 2003Ann. Internal Med. 138684/1 He was admitted 23 days prior. He had cancer. He was DNR. |