A Document That Informs a Health Care Provider of a Patient's

question 61

Multiple Choice

A document that informs a health care provider of a patient's desire regarding various life-sustaining treatment is a

• A) do not resuscitate order.
• B) health care proxy.
• C) living will.
• D) organ donation card.

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Definitions:

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

A chronic pain condition typically affecting an arm or a leg, developed after an injury, surgery, stroke, or heart attack.

Fracture

The medical term for a break in the continuity of a bone.

Unneeded Pain Medications

Pain relievers prescribed or taken when not necessary, which may lead to adverse effects or dependency.

Nociceptive Pain

Pain that arises from actual or threatened damage to non-neural tissue, detected by nociceptors.