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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Medical futility is commonly encountered in small animal clinical practice.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2022 OBJECTIVE To document veterinarians' perceptions and understanding of medical futility and determine the frequency with which medical futility occurs in small animal practice.
Nathan W Peterson, J. Boyd, Lisa Moses
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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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Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023 Aim:The knowledge and understanding of medical futility and decisions about termination of resuscitation (TOR) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are highly heterogeneous and dependent on the practice and beliefs of the attending emergency ...
Nur Aiza Mohamed Salleh +3 more
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Outcomes of critically ill patients according to the perception of intensivists on the appropriateness of intensive care unit admission [PDF]
Acute and Critical Care, 2021 Background It is important for intensivists to determine which patient may benefit from intensive care unit (ICU) admission. We aimed to assess the outcomes of patients perceived as non-beneficially or beneficially admitted to the ICU and evaluate ...
Youjin Chang +5 more
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Futile Medication in Palliative Cancer Patients; a Report from the Middle East [PDF]
Middle East Journal of Cancer, 2023 Background: Palliative cancer patients suffer from a condition which needs to take many medications for supportive care and comorbid illnesses management. Therefore, they are at risk of drug-rated problems, such as futile medications.
Hamed Mahzoni +2 more
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Are medical ethicists out of touch? Practitioner attitudes in the US and UK towards decisions at the end of life [PDF]
, 2000 To assess whether UK and US health care professionals share the views of medical ethicists about medical futility, withdrawing/withholding treatment, ordinary/extraordinary interventions, and the doctrine of double effect.
Dickenson, Donna
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Autonomy versus futility? Barriers to good clinical practice in end-of-life care: a Queensland case [PDF]
, 2012 Findings from a Queensland coronial inquest highlight the complex clinical, ethical and legal issues that arise in end-of-life care when clinicians and family members disagree about a diagnosis of clinical futility.
Lawrence, Sean +5 more
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