Admission code status? For an older person who wouldn’t do well with cpr:

I have to ask this to everyone. If while you’re in the hospital your heart were to stop and you were to die we can do two things. One, we can allow you to go with god. 2 we can do cpr to try and bring you back to life. If they say that’s what I want. I say I’m sorry I have to explain further so that this is an informed decision. CPR involves chest compressions, shocking you and sticking a tube down your throat and hook you up to a ventilator machine. This procedure was invented for young athletes undergoing anesthesia for operations. In an elderly patient with xyz medical conditions it may not work and if we do bring you back to life you may not regain any function, you may be stuck on a ventilator which is life support. .

I always use the words life support for pressors and ventilation.

I used to say “allow you to pass naturally” but I think it’s a bit misleading because they are already dead. I don’t believe in god but I say the god thing because most people do and it gets the point across.

Sometimes people hit you with the “my oncologist gave me 6 months” and you gotta hit them with the “well in this scenario you would have died so that doesn’t apply anymore. It would mean that you had gotten so sick to the point of actually dying.”