As professionals we have an obligation for ensuring patient safety, promoting efficient timeliness, fostering patient-centerness, improving quality health care to patients, and decreasing hospital stay. Providing protection and directions to patients are professional responsibilities which include anticipating atypical events, providing aggressive measures and proactively treating patients when critical illness or death is proximate. However, when is medical treatment considered futile? According to Alper, futile medical interventions are those that would “serve no meaningful purpose, no matter how often they are repeated. Another study states that medical futility is defined as a clinical action serving no useful purpose in attaining a specified
