Every day in intensive care units across the country, patients get aggressive, expensive treatment their caregivers know is not going to save their lives or make them better. California researchers ...
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CHICAGO — Critical care is resource-intensive and limited and the burdens of futile treatment extend beyond the patients who receive it, researchers report. "Futile treatment is recognized and is ...
More than one in 10 patients being treated in intensive care units (ICUs) was at some point receiving what doctors deemed to be futile care, in a new study. In those cases, critical care doctors ...