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Volume 350:1470-1471 April 1, 2004 Number 14
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Advance Care Planning

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To the Editor: I read Gillick's article on advance care planning (Jan. 1 issue)1 with particular interest. When my husband had a cardiac arrest and fell onto my shoulder during a Pittsburgh Steelers football game on September 28, 2003, he did not have a response to cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the stadium. No airway was established for more than 20 minutes, and he had no spontaneous cardiac rhythm for about 45 minutes. He was placed on life support at the stadium and taken to a nearby hospital.

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