Background; Futile care; a medical term applied when there is no reasonable hope of improvement or cure in spite expense surgical care. care decision governed by variety scoring systems to evaluate clinical situation and direct effort respecting the patient requirement, surrogate allowance. Where treatment being futile another view must be sought for afflicted patient. 
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The aim of this study was to assess attitudes of intensive care nurses to selected ethical issues related to end-of-life decisions in paediatric intensive care units. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed in 2005 to intensive care nurses at two different scientific occasions in Turkey. Of the 155 intensive care nurse participants, 98% were women. Fifty-three percent of these had int...

UNLABELLED 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. METHODS To examine the attitudes of the Japanese experts in the fields relevant to medical futility a questionnaire survey was conducted among the members of the Japan ...

Doctors have no ethical obligation to provide futile treatment. This has been true since the time of Hippocrates who warned physicians not to treat patients who were "overmastered by their disease." This principle remains valid today but, as the Society for Critical Care Medicine notes, it is difficult to identify treatment as absolutely futile in all but a few clinical situations. Far more com...

Futile cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may prevent humane care of the dying child and deprive parents of the opportunity to express their love, grief, and dedication at a critical moment, while appropriate and successful CPR may restore intact their child. Attempted resuscitation of corpses or children with terminal illness indicates inadequate knowledge, discrimination, and decision making...

Hospice care is rarely used in end-stage psychiatric patients, yet situations exist where psychiatric intervention is futile and comfort care is the best option. Delusional disorder is rare, typically begins later in life, and has a chronic course that responds poorly to treatment. The prognosis is affected by factors such as chronicity and insight. A case of a chronic and intractable delusiona...

AIMS To determine the extent of futile care provided to critically ill children admitted to a paediatric intensive care setting. METHODS Prospective evaluation of consecutive admissions to a 20 bedded multidisciplinary paediatric intensive care unit of a North London teaching hospital over a nine month period. Three previously defined criteria for futility were used: (1) imminent demise futil...