If the effort proves futile, it risks wasting billions while upsetting a balance of terror that has kept an uneasy peace among nuclear antagonists for more than half a century.
The Trust also defended its argument in February, and said that following discussions with colleagues in Liverpool and Manchester, doctors decided: "Alex had reached a point where all medical and surgical treatment options had been exhausted" and that "further intervention would have been futile and risked causing him great distress".
Using CPR duration alone to define futile resuscitation may risk delaying timely implementation of ECPR and missing opportunities to improve patient outcomes.
Rather than waging another futile conflict and risking a new and improved terrorist threat a decade from now (ISIS is an offshoot of al-Qaeda), we should analyze how Mel Brooks uses satire to mock Hitler and antisemitism.
At the risk of futile repetition, then, let's consider Kidnap and Ransom, the second series of the latest vehicle in which Trevor Eve gets to play out his God fantasies.
Nevertheless, our study enables us to alert the medical community about the risk of futile resuscitation in most cases of OH refractory cardiac arrest.
The perceived problem with slow euthanasia does not seem to be the hastening of death in itself, since the EAPC framework is careful to point out the risk of futile treatments or insufficient palliative measures at the end of life as a result of "exaggerated concerns about hastening death" (p. 582) [ 4].
"I do not accept the idea that trying other alternatives is either futile or perilous, that the risks of waiting are greater than the risk of war," Mr. Kennedy said, invoking his brother's restraint during the Cuban missile crisis.
Airbnb's report says that the company works to inform users when their data has been requested by a law enforcement agency "unless we believe that doing so would be futile, ineffective, or create a risk of harm".
Clearly, some patients identified at high risk may receive futile treatment but evaluating different thresholds or different weighting or new variables may refine prognosis.
