Editing Cardiac arrest (section)

===Slow code===
A "[[slow code]]" is a slang term for the practice of deceptively delivering sub-optimal [[Cardiopulmonary resuscitation|CPR]] to a person in cardiac arrest, when CPR is considered to have no medical benefit.<ref name="Primož">{{Cite book| vauthors = Primož P, Gräsner GD, Semeraro JT, Olasveengen F, Soar T, Lott J, Van de Voorde C, Madar P, Zideman J, Mentzelopoulos DA, Gradišek S |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1258336024|title=European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021 : executive summary|oclc=1258336024}}</ref> A "show code" is the practice of faking the response altogether for the sake of the person's family.<ref>{{cite news|date=22 August 1987|title=Slow Codes, Show Codes and Death|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/22/opinion/slow-codes-show-codes-and-death.html|url-status=live|access-date=2013-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518042545/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/22/opinion/slow-codes-show-codes-and-death.html|archive-date=18 May 2013}}</ref>

Such practices are ethically controversial<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = DePalma JA, Ozanich E, Miller S, Yancich LM | title = "Slow" code: perspectives of a physician and critical care nurse | journal = Critical Care Nursing Quarterly | volume = 22 | issue = 3 | pages = 89–97 | date = November 1999 | pmid = 10646457 | doi = 10.1097/00002727-199911000-00014 | url = http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/journalarticle?Article_ID=437848 | url-status = dead | publisher = [[Lippincott Williams and Wilkins]] | access-date = 2013-04-07 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130328192748/http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/journalarticle?Article_ID=437848 | archive-date = 2013-03-28 }}</ref> and are banned in some jurisdictions. The European Resuscitation Council Guidelines released a statement in 2021 that clinicians are not suggested to participate/take part in "slow codes".<ref name="Primož" /> According to the American College of Physicians, half-hearted resuscitation efforts are deceptive and should not be performed by physicians or nurses.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Sulmasy LS, Bledsoe TA | title = American College of Physicians Ethics Manual: Seventh Edition | journal = Annals of Internal Medicine | volume = 170 | issue = 2_Suppl | pages = S1–S32 | date = January 2019 | pmid = 30641552 | doi = 10.7326/M18-2160 | s2cid = 58004782 }}</ref>