Futile Extraordinary Burdensome Medical Treatment

Futile, extraordinary or burdensome medical treatment

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/euthanasia/overview/medicalburden.shtml

Futile, extraordinary or burdensome medical treatment Futile, extraordinary or burdensome medical treatment Euthanasia is not the same thing as refusing burdensome medical treatment....

Medical Futility: Legal and Ethical Analysis | Journal of Ethics ...

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medical-futility-legal-and-ethical-analysis/2007-05

What does “futility” mean? An empirical …

https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2016/204/8/what-does-futility-mean-empirical-study-doctors-perceptions

Futile medical treatment is a pressing challenge for Australian clinicians and the Australian health system. Futile treatment can prevent a good death 1 and may cause distress to patients …

Time for a Formalized Medical Futility Policy

https://www.chausa.org/publications/health-progress/article/july-august-2000/time-for-a-formalized-medical-futility-policy

Futile treatment determinations today incorporate medical, ethical, social, and legal components. The debate centers on the conflict between individual rights (patient …

Futile Care in Medicine: Definition and Legal …

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Futile care is health care that is provided for the sole purpose of keeping a person alive, even if there is no chance of recovery. If a treatment involves extraordinary …

Medical Futility: Knowing When to Stop - Kettering …

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1. Present a clinical case where the concept of medical futility might be invoked. 2. Give the proper definition and ethical parameters of this much-overused concept. 3. Show how …

End of Life Law - Futile or non-beneficial treatment …

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Futile or non-beneficial treatment is not defined in law, but is often used to describe treatment which is of no benefit, cannot achieve its purpose, or is not in …

Ethics and the provision of futile, harmful, or burdensome …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1541106/

Ethics and the provision of futile, harmful, or burdensome treatment to children Crit Care Med. 1992 Mar;20 (3):427-33. doi: 10.1097/00003246-199203000-00022. Authors L J …

Ordinary and Extraordinary Treatment - Hydration …

https://deputyprimeminister.gov.mt/en/regcounc/bioethics-committee/documents/10ordinary_and_extraordinary_treatment_hydration_and_nutrition.pdf

treatment can be extraordinary because it is simply futile. Those who are dying of one illness have no obligation to accept treatment for a second life-threatening one, which is …

Futile Care - Catholic Health Association of the United …

https://www.chausa.org/publications/health-progress/article/december-1993/futile-care

On December 14, 1989, 86-year-old Helga Wanglie slipped on a rug and broke her hip.2She was treated at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. She developed a series …