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Handling Cases of ‘Medical Futility’
HEC Forum, 2011Medical futility is commonly understood as treatment that would not provide for any meaningful benefit for the patient. While the medical facts will help to determine what is medically appropriate, it is often difficult for patients, families, surrogate decision-makers and healthcare providers to navigate these difficult situations. Often communication
Colleen M, Gallagher, Ryan F, Holmes
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Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 1995
Defining medical futility is central to the efforts of clinicians and ethicists who seek to identify the limits of patient autonomy. This article is a critique of current efforts to define and then use policies of medical futility to justify refusing requests for treatment and care that have no perceived medical benefit.
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Defining medical futility is central to the efforts of clinicians and ethicists who seek to identify the limits of patient autonomy. This article is a critique of current efforts to define and then use policies of medical futility to justify refusing requests for treatment and care that have no perceived medical benefit.
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2019
This chapter begins with a discussion of the concept of medical futility. It examines cases dealing with selective non-treatment of the newborn and selective non-treatment in infancy. The chapter argues that while concepts such as ‘futility’ and ‘best interests’ have strong normative appeal, the search for objectivity in their application may itself be
G. T. Laurie +2 more
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This chapter begins with a discussion of the concept of medical futility. It examines cases dealing with selective non-treatment of the newborn and selective non-treatment in infancy. The chapter argues that while concepts such as ‘futility’ and ‘best interests’ have strong normative appeal, the search for objectivity in their application may itself be
G. T. Laurie +2 more
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Tackling Medical Futility in Texas
New England Journal of Medicine, 2007For several weeks this spring, national attention was focused on a mother's struggle to prevent the Children's Hospital of Austin from withdrawing life support from her infant son, Emilio Gonzales. The Gonzales case is the most recent in a series of famous “futility” cases. Dr. Robert Truog discusses futility cases and The Texas Advance Directives Act.
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Medical Futility and “Brain Death”
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2018Judgments of futility are always relative to some goal. In light of that proposition, continued treatment for those diagnosed as "brain dead" is not necessarily futile.
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The Ethics of Medical Futility
Critical Care Clinics, 1993This article traces the evolution of the debate between the futility of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the patient's right to consent, analyzing its origins in the 1970s and examining new policies recommended by the American Medical Association in 1991.
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Hu li za zhi The journal of nursing, 2014
Although able to extend the life of some critical patients, advanced medical technology is limited in terms of scope and extent of effectiveness. Some patients die despite the best efforts of medical teams. Medical futility describes treatments that are both extremely unlikely to benefit a patient and costly to provide.
Ming-Yi, Hsu, Lien-Ying, Chiang
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Although able to extend the life of some critical patients, advanced medical technology is limited in terms of scope and extent of effectiveness. Some patients die despite the best efforts of medical teams. Medical futility describes treatments that are both extremely unlikely to benefit a patient and costly to provide.
Ming-Yi, Hsu, Lien-Ying, Chiang
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022Jun J Mao,, Msce +2 more
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