The Minnesota Health Care Directive Page 14
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16My Medical Treatment Preferences
It is helpful for others to know if and why you have strong feelings about certain medical treatments.
Some of the more difficult medical decisions are about treatments used to prolong life, such as those
listed below. Most medical treatments can be tried for a while and then stopped if they do not help.
Discuss these medical treatments with a health care professional to make sure you understand what
they might mean for you given your current as well as future health conditions.
Medical Procedure
When It Is Used and
My Feelings About This Procedure
Its Effects
Ventilator/Respirator
When you cannot
A breathing machine
breathe on your own
A Do Not Intubate
You cannot talk or eat
(DNI) order is put on
by mouth on this
your medical record
machine
when you do not want
this procedure
Nutrition support and
When you cannot eat
hydration
or drink by mouth,
feeding solutions can
provide enough
nutrition to support
life indefinitely.
Feeding solutions can
be put through a tube
in your stomach,
nose, intestine, or
veins.
Cardiopulmonary
Actions to make your
Resuscitation (CPR)
heart and lungs start
if they stop including
A Do Not Resuscitate
pounding on your
(DNR) order is put on
chest, electric shocks,
your medical record
medications, and a
when you do not want
tube in your throat.
this procedure.
Dialysis
A mechanical means
of cleaning the blood
when kidneys are not
working.
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