Is treatment futile in children with CF?
As most childhood drowning incidents occur in non-icy water, 4 7 34 the observation that prolonged resuscitation was futile in children with cardiac arrest and hypothermia after drowning in other seasons is important.
Treating a baby can be considered futile if the child is expected to die or be born with severe health problems.
Take away the exotic setting and circumstance and you have a relentlessly believable story of a child's futile struggle to, well, "be loved".
(Ecco/HarperCollins, $23.95). A young woman searches for the truth about her parentage amid the snow and ice of Lapland in this bleakly comic yet sad tale of a child's futile struggle to be loved.
To keep us calm we put our faith in essentially futile rules, like a child who has to do up their pyjama buttons in exactly the same order every night for fear of being swallowed up Life for children – or anyone else – cannot be made completely safe.
For the famous couple, keeping mature subjects hidden from their child seems futile.
I would first attempt to delineate what the parents might consider futile care for their child and to define for them what therapies are within acceptable limits for the health care team.
They team felt that continued care represented the prolongation of futile therapy for a child whose brain has been lost from severe postanoxic brain damage, and evolution of the brain tumor would prevent any substantial long-term neurological recovery.
If highly educated migrants were not able to generate a wage premium from their education during their stay abroad, they might be induced to consider education for their children as futile and reduce their aspirations.
