DNR Order

(redirected from Do not resuscitate)
Also found in: Dictionary, Medical, Acronyms, Wikipedia.

Related to Do not resuscitate: living will

DNR Order

Do Not Reduce Order

In a limit order following the ex-dividend date, an instruction not to reduce the limit price by the amount of the dividend. Most of the time, following the ex-dividend date, the price of the limit order is reduced because the coming dividend will belong to the current owner, rather than the buyer. One issues a do not reduce order if one believes that demand for the stock justifies the higher price.

Mentioned in ?

Do Not Reduce Order

References in periodicals archive ?

Two recent Manitoba cases dealt with some of the legal issues that may arise when a Do Not Resuscitate Order is made:

In consultation with the infants physicians, Family Services agreed that the placement of a Do Not Resuscitate Order on the infants chart was the appropriate course of action.

Do not resuscitate orders

Tessmann is the lead author of the study, "Effect of a Do Not Resuscitate Order on The Level of Care in an Intensive Care Unit," presented today at the Critical Care Congress at the Henry B.

DNR Order Does Not Affect Overall Quality of Care in ICU Says Study Presented at Congress of Society of Critical Care Medicine

Such policies include do not resuscitate, termination of life support, defining brain death, complying with advanced directives, determining the appropriate surrogate decision maker, triaging, determining capacity to refuse consent to treatment, and other issues.