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  1. Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study.João Vítor Vieira, Henrique Oliveira, Sérgio Deodato & Felismina Mendes - forthcoming - Nursing Ethics.
    Background: Despite the progress made in recent decades on the phenomenon of futility in adult intensive care, recognizing it during clinical care practice remains a complex and sensitive process, during which questions are often raised for which concrete answers are difficult to find. Aims: To analyze the frequency with which futile nursing interventions are implemented in critically ill patients admitted to adult intensive care in specific situations and how often futile autonomous and interdependent nursing interventions are implemented in the same (...)
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  • The concept of futility in health: A scoping review.João Vítor da Silva Vieira, Sérgio Deodato & Felismina Mendes - 2021 - Clinical Ethics 16 (4):347-353.
    Introduction Due to the constant scientific and technological development, health professionals are regularly confronted with situations in which there are always therapeutic options, regardless of the severity of the patient’s condition. However, regarding these therapeutic options as feasible in all situations can be harmful, since it is universally accepted that, despite all advances in health, there are inevitable limits and the promotion of some interventions may be useless or futile. Objective To characterize the use of the concept of futility in (...)
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