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Learn Spanish for discussing a DNR order and a more palliative approach to care. 

We are revisiting a dialogue from the Palliative Care module in our Spanish for Primary Care course. A doctor discusses code status with the daughter of a patient admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. In the first half of this dialogue, the doctor explained CPR. In the second half, the doctor explains that when a person is in a fragile state of health, cardiopulmonary resuscitation often fails to achieve the desired results.

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Vocabulario

¿Deberíamos reanimarlo?

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I agree.
Estoy de acuerdo.

everything possible
todo lo posible

to benefit
beneficiar

to fail
fallar

to resuscitate
reanimar, resucitar

Trying to resuscitate him would not benefit him.(Usa: TRATAR y RESUCITAR)
Tratar de resucitarlo no le beneficiaría.

Should we try to resuscitate him if his heart or lungs were to fail?  (Usa: INTENTAR y REANIMAR)
¿Deberíamos intentar reanimarlo, si su corazón o sus pulmones fallaran?
¿Lo deberíamos intentar reanimar, si su corazón o sus pulmones fallaran?

Aquí utilizamos el imperfecto de subjuntivo para expresar una situación hipotética. Practicamos aquí este uso del subjuntivo: Conditional Statements.

Puede no tener los resultados deseados

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