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"If a mentally impaired person has a cardiac arrest, he should not be given CPR." This advance directive is a _____.
Tardive Dyskinesia
A neurological syndrome caused by the long-term use of neuroleptic drugs, characterized by repetitive, involuntary, purposeless movements.
Brain Damage
The destruction or deterioration of brain cells, often resulting in impaired cognitive, physical, or emotional functions.
Schizophrenia
A long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions, and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
Conventional Antipsychotic
A group of older antipsychotic drugs primarily used to treat symptoms of psychosis, such as those found in schizophrenia.
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