Video may help terminal patients make CPR choice

By Trevor Stokes NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Terminally ill cancer patients who watched either of two videos about the option to forego resuscitation overwhelmingly elected that route for the patient in the video, if not for themselves, according to a new study. But the vignettes – whose only difference was whether fictional patients decided on their own to skip cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or got a recommendation from their doctor – elicited high marks from real patients for the video doctors’ compassion in discussing a difficult subject. …