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POLST forms are out-of-hospital medical orders. Wherever you are, your POLST form tells health care providers what treatments you want and your goals of care, even if you transfer from hospital to nursing home, back to your home, or to hospice or another setting.

Life-sustaining treatment This is treatment that replaces or supports ailing bodily functions, such as: ventilation – this may be used if you cannot breathe by yourself. cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) – this may be used if your heart stops. antibiotics – this can help your body fight infection.

Other common life-prolonging treatments include chemotherapy, radiotherapy and/or immunotherapy for cancer, and blood transfusions, antibiotics and surgery.

Life-sustaining treatment is any treatment that serves to prolong life without reversing the underlying medical condition. Life-sustaining treatment may include, but is not limited to, mechanical ventilation, renal dialysis, chemotherapy, antibiotics, and artificial nutrition and hydration.

The Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is a written medical order from a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant that helps give people with serious illnesses more control over their own care by specifying the types of medical treatment they want to receive during serious illness.

This is a Physician Order guided by the patient's medical condition and based upon personal preferences verbalized to the Physician or expressed in an Advance Directive.

Life-sustaining Treatments A machine to help with breathing (ventilator) A machine to help your kidneys (dialysis) A tube into your stomach to provide food (nasogastric or gastrostomy tube) A tube into your vein to provide fluids and medicines (intravenous, IV tube)

A life-sustaining treatment, also referred to as a life-sustaining procedure or life-prolonging procedure, is a treatment utilized to prolong or sustain life without reversing the underlying medical condition.