Doctors without PPE face 'awful dilemma' of whether to resuscitate patients

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The Health Consultants and Specialists Association is pushing Public Health England to re-think its guidance after a quarter of doctors admitted facing infected patients without adequate PPE

Union bosses have urged frontline doctors fearing for their lives against performing CPR on virus patients unless they have adequate PPE, it is claimed.

 

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exposemdoc 'CPR in hospitals, however, sees ventilators take the place of mouth-to-mouth unlike what is taught to first aiders in the general public.' I'm not doing mouth-to-mouth on...anyone.

They have a do not resuscitate, so why is this a story

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