Editing Do not resuscitate (section)

=== Brazil ===
There is no formally recognized protocol for creating and respecting DNR orders in Brazil's healthcare delivery system. The legality of not administering resuscitation procedures for terminally ill patients has not been clearly defined, leading many providers to practice caution around withholding CPR.<ref name="Putzel 596–602">{{Cite journal|last1=Putzel|first1=Elzio Luiz|last2=Hilleshein|first2=Klisman Drescher|last3=Bonamigo|first3=Elcio Luiz|date=December 2016|title=Ordem de não reanimar pacientes em fase terminal sob a perspectiva de médicos|journal=Revista Bioética|volume=24|issue=3|pages=596–602|doi=10.1590/1983-80422016243159|issn=1983-8042|doi-access=free}}</ref>

Although DNR orders have not been institutionalized in Brazil there has been a significant amount of dialogue around the ethical question of whether or not to withhold resuscitation interventions. In the past two decades the Federal Medical Board of Brazil published two resolutions, CFM 1.805/2006 and CFM 1.995/2012, which address therapeutic limitations in terminally ill patients as well as advanced directives. A recent study also showed that in Brazil's healthcare system CPR is being withheld in scenarios of terminal illness or multiple comorbidities at rates similar to those in North America.<ref name="Putzel 596–602"/>