Comfort One Program
When in the hospital or a nursing home, you can request a do not resuscitate order from your doctor. When in the community, emergency personal and medical professionals MUST work to sustain life at all costs.
The Comfort One Program if for those who are terminally ill. It is for those who do not want lif-saving measures performed when they go into respiratory and cardiac arrest. Alaska established this law, in October 1996, to help health care proviers identigy those terminally ill persons who have expressed wishes to not be resuscitated.
ONLY A PHYSICAN can provide the form, wallet card and bracelet to alert the providers that the person has a Do Not Resuscitate order and is in the Comfort One Program.
Health care workers may provide comfort to a person in the Comfort One Program by:
 | suctioning the airway |
| administering oxygen |
| assisting the person into a comfortable position |
| providing emotional support |
| providing pain medication |
| contacting hospice, home health agency, or the attending physician |
Health care workers should not provide a person in the Comfort One Program the following:
| use advanced airway devices such as endotracheal tubes or multi-lumen airways |
| initiate cardiac monitoring |
| administer cardiac resuscitation drugs |
| defibrillate |
| provide ventilatory assistance |
Picture of the Comfort One Bracelet
