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The medical futility experience of nursing professionals in Greece [PDF]
BMC Nursing, 2021 Background Providing futile medical care is an ever-timely ethical problem in clinical practice. While nursing personnel are very closely involved in providing direct care to patients nearing the end of life, their role in end-of-life decision-making ...
Polychronis Voultsos +2 more
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Medical futility and its challenges: a review study [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2016 Concerns over limited medical equipment and resources, particularly in intensive care units (ICUs), have raised the issue of medical futility. Medical futility draws a contrast between physician’s authority and patients’ autonomy and it is one of the ...
Maryam Aghabarary, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri
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Medical Futility & Parental “Rights”
Voices in Bioethics, 2017 Decisions regarding withholding and withdrawing care raise some of the most difficult, yet classic, bioethical questions. The current events related to Charlie Gard, an infant and native of the United Kingdom, born with a rare and devastating disease ...
Alex Fleming
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Why reflexivity matters in the literature of suffering, death, and dying in eating disorders [PDF]
Journal of Eating DisordersCurrent debates on medical aid in dying and treatment futility in longstanding eating disorders emphasize diagnostic frameworks, ethical principles, and legal statutes.
Scout Silverstein
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Conceptualization of Idle (Laghw) and its Relation to Medical Futility [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2016 A major debate in medical ethics is the request for futile treatment. The topic of medical futility requires discrete assessment in Iran for at least two reasons.
Mohsen Rezaei Adaryani +4 more
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Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness
Voices in Bioethics, 2022 Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash ABSTRACT Medical futility judgments for patients in prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) frequently lead to withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (LST), which is the leading cause of death for ...
William Choi
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Analiza i Egzystencja, 2021 This article presents the current discussion around the terms “medical futility” and “persistent therapy” and their definitions. This discussion is based on the dis-pute of whether the term “persistent therapy” should be rejected and replaced with the ...
Marcin Ferdynus
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Medical futility treatment in intensive care units [PDF]
Acta Medica Academica, 2016 Objective. To investigate cases of potential medical futility treatment in intensive care unit (ICU). Materials and Methods. Retrospective review of 1567 charts of patients treated during the three-year period (2012 - 2014) in the ICU of the University ...
Marko Jukić +3 more
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Limiting futile therapy as part of end-of-life care in intensive care units
Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy, 2022 The debate about medical futility often involves intensive care units where life-support procedures are routinely applied. Futile therapy is part of end-of-life therapy. In the discussion about medical futility it is important to distinguish the effect
Maria Damps +4 more
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Addressing Futility: A Practical Approach
Critical Care Explorations, 2022 OBJECTIVES:. Limiting or withdrawing nonbeneficial medical care is considered ethically responsible throughout most of critical care and medical ethics literature. Practically, however, setting limits to treatment is often challenging.
Piroska K. Kopar, MD, FACS +3 more
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