Patient-originated futility insight: Ethical right or ethical plight?

Therapeutic futility as an ethical issue: intensive care unit nurses.

Therapeutic futility in intensive care units (ICUs) is still little discussed among nursing professionals responsible for implementing prescribed procedures, which they might disagree on. Therefore, interviews were carried out with ICU nurses to understand how they are coping with the implementation of futile treatments. Based on the analysis of collected data, the following categories emerged:...

Ethical Analysis of Medical Futility in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is a life-saving intervention in emergency medical care practiced globally for the last more than seven decades. It cannot be a solution to prevent every death and there are risks associated with this intervention. This article focuses on the ethical dilemmas related to the decisions of medical futility in cardiopulmonary resuscitation particularly in emergen...

Ethical Behavior: Care or Knowledge

Futility in Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Critical Review from an Ethical Perspective

Several definitions for medical futility has been proposed in the literature. Medical futility is defined as the condition in which an intervention, either for diagnosis, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation or other medical goals, has no benefit for the individual patient. This critical review aimed to increase the understanding of physicians and other healthcare providers on the issue of fut...

Re: Ethical studies, ethical publication.

I was pleased to see that Occupational Medicine thought it appropriate to publish an editorial on ethical publication [1]. It is important that the ethics of research and publication remain in the consciousness of occupational physicians. This is particularly so where they are actively involved in occupational medicine research and therefore the ethical treatment of workers who participate in s...