PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Lucas Vivas AU - Travis Carpenter TI - Meaningful futility: requests for resuscitation against medical recommendation AID - 10.1136/medethics-2020-106232 DP - 2021 Oct 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 654--656 VI - 47 IP - 10 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/47/10/654.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/47/10/654.full SO - J Med Ethics2021 Oct 01; 47 AB - ‘Futility’ is a contentious term that has eluded clear definition, with proposed descriptions either too strict or too vague to encompass the many facets of medical care. Requests for futile care are often surrogates for requests of a more existential character, covering the whole range of personal, emotional, cultural and spiritual needs. Physicians and other practitioners can use requests for futile care as a valuable opportunity to connect with their patients at a deeper level than the mere biomedical diagnosis. Current debate around Canada’s changing regulatory and legal framework highlights challenges in appropriately balancing the benefits and burdens created by requests for futile care.There are no data in this work