Research Paper On Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Various healthcare professionals have different opinions about family presence during critical or life threatening illness. Traditionally, family members have not been allowed to be present during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and other invasive procedures. Supposed “reasons for their exclusion include fear that families might lose emotional control and interrupt care, lack of space to accommodate family members in the resuscitation room, perceived increased risk of litigation, and worry that family members would suffer deleterious psychological consequences at having witnessed CPR” (Fallis, McClement, & Periera, 2008, p. 22). On the contrary, countless studies have found that “[f]amilies believe it is their right to be present during