futile care

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• Futile medical care — refers to the belief that in cases where there is no hope for improvement of an incapacitating condition that no course of treatment is called for. It is distinct from the idea of euthanasia because euthanasia involves active intervention to end… …   Wikipedia

• care — n Care, concern, solicitude, anxiety, worry are comparable when meaning either a state of mind in which one is engrossed and troubled by something pertinent to oneself or another, or the pertinent thing that engrosses and troubles one. The same… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• futile — adj. describing an intervention that has little or no prospect of achieving its intended purpose. In medical practice, claims of futility are often used to justify withholding or withdrawing medical treatment at the end of life. However, the… …   The new mediacal dictionary

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• Advance Directives Act — The Texas Advance Directives Act (1999), also known as the Texas Futile Care Law, describes certain provisions that are now Chapter 166 of the Texas Health Safety Code. Controversy over these provisions mainly centers on Section 166.046,… …   Wikipedia

• Baby K — was born in an anencephalic state on October 13, 1992, at Fairfax Hospital in Virginia. That is, she was born missing almost all of her brain. In fact, all that remained of her brain was the brainstem, that primitive part of the brain responsible …   Wikipedia

• Futility — may refer to:*Resistance is futile, a term in science fiction *Futile medical care, a medical belief *Futile, an EP album by Porcupine Tree * Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan , an 1898 novel *The Advance Directives Act, a Texan health care law …   Wikipedia

• Spiro Nikolouzos — (1936 May 30, 2005) was a Texas man incapacitated from bleeding related to a cerebral shunt, whose care was the subject of an appeal of The Texas Futile Care Law). Nikolouzos was hospitalized on February 10 2005 at St. Luke s Episcopal Hospital,… …   Wikipedia

• Karen Ann Quinlan — Infobox Person name = Karen Ann Quinlan caption = Karen Ann Quinlan in 1972, prior to her brain injury birth date = birth date|1954|3|29|mf=y birth place = Scranton, Pennsylvania death date = death date and age|1985|6|11|1954|3|29|mf=y death… …   Wikipedia

• Dead on arrival — For other uses, see Dead on arrival (disambiguation). Dead on arrival or D.O.A. (also dead in the field) is a term used to indicate that a patient was found to be already clinically dead upon the arrival of professional medical assistance, often… …   Wikipedia

• Tirhas Habtegiris — (1978 December 14, 2005), a legal female immigrant into the USA from Eritrea, was removed from a respirator against the wishes of her family, under a Texas law signed by then Governor George W. Bush. Habtegiris had cancer that had spread to her… …   Wikipedia