Quote Originally Posted by Rogar View Post
i had to fact check myself as I could recall talking with my doctor recently about this.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2751179/
Wow, and by the way, hate the title (I'm 70): "Outcomes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the elderly

Patients: Five hundred and three consecutive patients aged 70 and over who received cardiopulmonary resuscitation.Measurements and main results: Of 503 patients, 112 (22%) survived initially but only 19 (3.8%) survived to hospital discharge. The poorest outcomes were for patients with unwitnessed arrests (1 of 116 survived), terminal arrhythmias such as asystole and electromechanical dissociation (1 of 237 survived), and patients with cardiopulmonary resuscitation lasting more than 15 minutes (1 of 360 survived). Only 2 (0.8%; CI, 0.0% to 2.0%) of 244 patients with out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrests left the hospital alive. "

Nonetheless, we've talked it over and decided to not fill out the DNR at this time, and reconsider later.