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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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Indonesian Comparative Law Review, 2020 Medical futility has always been a huge blow to the medical world. While medical practitioners live to save others’ lives, some cases may not be as kind to their honorable intentions.
Syaheera Aina Baharudin
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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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Autonomy and authority in medical futility. [PDF]
J Biomed Res, 2014 Medical futility has been proposed for many years to define the procedure that simply prolongs the suffering of patients but heals nothing[1]. To deal with the decision procedure for treatment, two ideas arise: patients′ autonomy and doctors′ authority.
Jiang Z, Yang L, Guo P, Gong S.
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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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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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Experts' attitudes towards medical futility: an empirical survey from Japan
BMC Medical Ethics, 2006 Background The current debate about medical futility is mostly driven by theoretical and personal perspectives and there is a lack of empirical data to document experts and public attitudes towards medical futility.
Asai Atsushi +2 more
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Problem uporczywej terapii w świetle filozofii człowieka
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2009 The problem of medical futility, which combines the issues of euthanasia, is one of the most difficult matter of medical ethics. The theraphy becomes futile when a patient is in an agonizing state and none of the extraordinary actions can restore the ...
Kazimierz Szałata
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BMC Medical Ethics, 2012 Back ground Empirical surveys about medical futility are scarce relative to its theoretical assumptions. We aimed to evaluate the difference of attitudes between laypeople and physicians towards the issue.
Kadooka Yasuhiro +2 more
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