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单词 dnr
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DNRn.adj.

Brit. /ˌdiːɛnˈɑː/, U.S. /ˌdiˌɛnˈɑr/
Origin: Formed within English, as an initialism. Etymon: English d.
Etymology: Initialism < do not resuscitate.
Medicine (originally and chiefly U.S.).
A. n.
1. An order prohibiting medical personnel from attempting to resuscitate a patient after cardiac or respiratory arrest. Frequently attributive, designating such an order.
ΚΠ
1976 N.Y. Times 27 Jan. (Late Jersey ed.) 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.]
1983 RN (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?
1991 K. Spink tr. D. Lapierre Beyond Love iii. xxxiv. 213 Everyone called it the DNR, an abbreviation for ‘Do not resuscitate’.
1994 Guardian 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.
1999 R. Green et al. Do not Resuscitate (HBO TV shooting script) 43 in Sopranos 2nd Ser. (O.E.D. Archive) 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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun]
askera1382
requirantc1450
requirerc1450
requester1564
requestant1660
postulator1714
applicant?1742
submitter1776
DNR1988
1988 Z. R. Wolf Nurses' Work (1989) ii. 71 When a patient was classified as a DNR, certain therapeutic actions were abandoned.
1992 Newsweek 7 Sept. 8/1 You see, Doctor, when I spoke to you I forgot to mention that she's a DNR.
2000 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 163 1025/3 ‘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.
ΚΠ
1984 N.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.
1989 Arch. Internal Med. 149 1851 Demographic, medical, and outcome characteristics for 821 do not resuscitate (DNR) patients were compared with 300 age- and sex-matched control patients.
1994 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 2 Mar. 642/1 He is DNR. What are the limits?
2003 Ann. Internal Med. 138 684/1 He was admitted 23 days prior. He had cancer. He was DNR.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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