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- Title
MEDICAL FUTILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF ECMO.
- Authors
Reynolds, Patrick
- Abstract
The patient or surrogate, still overjoyed that the patient has survived, refuses and wants the VA-ECMO maintained indefinitely, consigning the patient to a "bridge to nowhere." 3 Given the circumstances under which VA-ECMO therapy was introduced, this decision may be opposed by the patient or more commonly the surrogate, who equates withdrawing the VA-ECMO with taking the patient's life. The VA-ECMO was started, and the patient was stabilized, after which the education of the patient or the surrogate began, along with the comprehensive and ongoing assessment of the patient. Defen Ding the Dignity of the h uman Person in h ealth Care an D the l ife s Cien Ces sin Ce 1972 M edical futility theory has become an enduring topic of discussion among medical practitioners and bioethicists of all persuasions.
- Subjects
FUTILE medical care; FRUSTRATION; MEDICAL personnel; HEALTH care rationing; HEALTH care teams; PHILOSOPHY of medicine; PASSIVE euthanasia; DO-not-resuscitate orders
- Publication
Ethics & Medics, 2017, Vol 42, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1071-3778
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/em201742610