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Advisory council flags DNR regulation complexity and CCEP’s historical role as DPH weighs rewrite
Summary
Councilors noted the Connecticut College of Emergency Physicians’ historic role in the community DNR program and debated whether DPH should centralize or otherwise revise DNR oversight as part of a regulatory rewrite to avoid conflicts between DNR and MOLST processes.
The council shifted part of the meeting to discuss how community DNR processes and MOLST intersect. Rich Kainen outlined the historical role of the Connecticut College of Emergency Physicians (CCEP) in organizing delivery of DNR orders and distributing orange and metal bracelets that EMS recognizes to uphold DNR orders. "The current DNR process holds integral to it the Connecticut College of Emergency Physicians," Kainen said, noting…
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