3 This is not to advocate for therapeutic interventions on behalf of wild populations or individual infected wild animals, but rather to emphasize that, from an ethical perspective, the threshold for lethal intervention is lower when the reservoir population is itself suffering from the effects of the disease.
Therefore, it can be argued that a patient's right to receive or demand a lethal treatment or intervention (eg, deactivating a medical device) is open to questioning.
First, nearly half of male veterans own a firearm or live in a household with a firearm, suggesting that lethal means interventions must be prepared to address firearm access among a large number of veterans.
But, for a decade and more, Britain embarked on military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan — two of the very lands where its own history taught the lethal perils of intervention in the 19th and 20th centuries.
It's the most common cause of sudden cardiac arrest, a major killer in the United States and almost always lethal without immediate intervention.
Shocking as this may be, especially given the surreal and at times lethal consequences of these interventions, I do not regard them as uniquely condemnable, since throughout history those looking to enhance their physical beauty have subjected themselves to comparable, if not more severe ordeals.
After describing encouraging results obtained in proof-of-concept tests of multiple antiapoptotic interventions in lethal murine models of sepsis, we note some potential limitations of such therapy that could slow its introduction into the therapeutic regimen.
Acute subdural hematomas are extremely dangerous and frequently lethal without quick surgical intervention.
This suggests that IFNγ blockade potentially represents an effective mode of intervention in lethal septic shock.
More attention should be paid to identify the lethal RCC for early intervention.
In men who receive a PSA test, use of risk calculators that take other clinical parameters (age, prostate volume, free to total PSA ratio) into account or a triage test may help identify men who could avoid a prostate biopsy and detection of clinically insignificant disease, while still detecting potentially lethal disease that requires intervention.
