Futile Care at End of Life

Spirituality and Healing: A Relationship between Faith and Medicine  Topic: Futile Care at End of Life.& Natural

Disasters—Katrina, Sandy, Jeddah Floods.  Prof. Faroque A Khan. MB(kmr), MACP.  Director IMANA International

Collaboration.  IMC/IMANA Conference –Jeddah. KSA

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Introduction •

All mandates of Islam aim at preserving: – – – – –

Life ‫النفس‬ Faith ‫الدين‬ Mind ‫العقل‬ Possessions (money/wealth) ‫المال‬ Parentage ‫النسب‬

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Ultimately, cure is by Allah –

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“And when I am ill, it is He (Allah) who cures me” Ash-shuraa, verse 80

Individual responsibility –

“On no soul does Allah place a burden greater than it can bear. It gets every good that it earns, and it suffers every ill that it earns” AlBakarah, verse 286

DYING CAN GET COMPLICATED- 1)Permanent cardiopulmonary death-cpd  2) CPD, possibly not yet permanent.  3)CPD with cessation of cellular activity.  4)Dead but mechanically functioning.  5)Brain death with no detected activity  6)Brain dead, but not entirely.  7)Life is gift from

Allah-God-and it is to be revered until it ends by itself—Soul & Body separation:Q 3:145- 39:42- 45:26-, 23:100

Grandma Martha’s Dilemma: Surveyed Cross Section of Community. 52 Responded.    

Scholars, imams, MD, homemakers etc.

10 women and 42 men responded.

52% –prohibited, 33% OK,15%-no opinion.

IMANA Newsletter: Vol XXIII, Issue 3.

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Yes:-Milk-motherSurrogacy for ailment.

No: Birthing mother(58:2)Adultery.

Others: Get fatwa, Not a scholar, concerns regarding family dynamics.

Futile Care  Definition: Prevalence: Two Examples-

Terri Schiavo and Prof. Jeffrey Butler.  Religious Guidelines  Incorporating Religious Guidelines in Curriculum.  Resource Allocation-Rationing : Two Examples- Katrina(2005) Sandy (2012)

Futile Care: References.  FK: JIMA 18:20.1986-Brain Death  FK: Fordham

Law Jour. xxx Nov 2002 page 267-277—DNR & Bioethics.  Badawi G, Smith F, Davidson, FK: Panel  JIMA 43,113-133 Dec 2011.  FK: JIMA (Ed) 38:6-9 March 2006-TS.  Huynh TN et al: JAMA Sept 9, 2013-Futile  Butler-K: Knocking on Heaven’s Gate: Book-Scribner Sept 2013.

WHAT IS FUTILE CARE? JAMA Sept 9 2013-Huynh TN  DEF: 1)Burden> Benefit—58%

2)Treatment goals could never reach pt goals 51 % 3)Death imminent 37%4) Survival outside ICU not likely 36%  3month prospective study in five ICU’s.  1136 pts, 6916 assessed by 36 consultants.—80%appropriate care, 9% probably futile, 11% futile care.

FUTILE CARE-Contd.  Six month mortality for the 123 pts who

received futile care was 85%, survivors quality of life very poor.  Cost was 2.6 million $$ =9.75SR  Suggest: Early transition to palliative care.  NYT Wed Nov 20,2013-How Doctors Die.  Identify FC in ICU-first step toward refocussing care on patients more likely to benefit.

What To Expect? Chest Vol 144, Nov 2013-page 1707-1709  Three Step Approach:  1) Physicians decide care is futile  2) Appropriate committee agrees.  3)Clinical outcome that often is, but not

always, pt death.  Future futility guidelines need to incorporate prospective data on its appl.  ATS, SCCM,ACCP, AACCN, ESICM preparing guidelines.

Source of Islamic Guidelines Quran—God’s commands.  Hadith—Prophet Mohd.(pbuh)-words &

deeds. Ijma (Group consultation)  Qiyas (Personal opinion)  Other Sources.

What is Sharia?

Shariah means a road—travel spiritually very quickly without accident.  Operative formula by which Muslim determines what is good and ethical.  Objectives:  1) Criminal law:—murder, larceny,libel etc  2)Family—Marriage, divorce, inheritance, custody, ?surrogacy.  3)Transactions-Property, contracts, gifts, 

Sharia--Objectives  Protection of life—Quran 5:32.  Protection of religion  Protection of property or wealth  Lineage and offspring  Protection of mind—sanity,

reasons/intellect.

Considerations

Inputs

Hurma

Maslaha

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Islamic ethico-legal deliberation

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Discursive Partners

Clinical Practice

Social Science

Inputs Islamic Law (fiqh, hukm)

An Islamic Bioethics

Medical Sciences

Moral Theology (usul al fiqh)

Ethics (Adab)

Philosophy & Bioethics Health Policy

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What Broke my Fathers Heart-NYT June 14,2010 by Katy Butler--1  85 male, retired professor, had stroke at

age 79, had some cognitive & mobility problems.  Wife became constant caregiver, lost wt, became depressed.  Jeff developed painful inguinal hernia, for long standing bradycardia, pacemaker was placed preop—wife consented.(Jeff had refused it a year earlier-overtreatment)

What Broke my Fathers Heart-NYT June 14,2010 by Katy Butler-2 Hernia was fixed. Pacemaker continued ticking over next few yrs.  Jeff developed dementia, macular degeneration, and became incontinent.  Wife wanted to have pacemaker deactivated.  Family felt Jeff did not want to live in this state.  Living will does not address dementia or pacemaker as life support. 

What Broke my Fathers Heart-NYT June 14,2010 by Katy Butler-3 A)Should Jeff’s pacemaker be turned off?  B)Who decides when pt is mentally incapable?  C) Doctors are trained as healers, what responsibility do/should they have in presenting life sustaining versus alternative therapies?.  D) Medicare rewards far better for doing procedures than for assessing whether they should be done at all. 

Islamic(Muslim) Physician What does it mean?.  Birth.

Free Will.  Predetermined life span.  Book—Quran.  Death.  Afterlife.  Accountabilty.( Key factor—Intention)

Guidelines:Sharia—Key Points   

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Necessity overrides prohibition.

Harm to be removed Accept the lesser of two harms if both can not be avoided Public interest overrides the individual interest.

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Ex:Starvation-Pork etc.

Make things easier— combine hajj and umrah rituals—one intention-(niyyah).

Use of scarce resources— ICU/transplant etc.

Key Questions @ EOLC  Ventilatory Support.—Air.  Hydration—Water  Nutrition—Food.  COST !!!!!.

Ethical Dilemmas Related to Terri Schiavo’s Health Care  Ms TS: 26 female, suffered cardiac arrest on

Feb 25,1990.  Remained in persistent vegetative state for 15 years.  Died from dehydration on March 31,2005, two wks after court ordered removal of feeding tube.

Questions:Â Was TS condition hopeless?

2) Would she have wanted her feeding tube removed?

3) Who is responsible for the cost of care, estimated to be in millions.

4) Recommendations regarding—Vent support, Fluid, Nutrition in hopelessly sick pts.

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 Health Care Costs? –Terri Schiavo Case.  Who is responsible ? individual ? family ?

society  Any religious guidelines?  Khan F: JIMA Editorial: Vol 38(No 1) page 6-9, March 2006.

VENTILATION—FUTILE CARE NUMC EXPERIENCE.  “Terminal Weaning”(Palliative) after

appropriate family and staff agreement.  Thirty plus patients weaned “terminally”  Three “survived” and transferred.  Karnik A, Khan F: Ethical Issues in Ventilated Patients-Hospital Practice Nov 1997,43(11) 11-18.

EOLC--Costs  Top 5% account for nearly half of

spending(>600 billion/yr).  17% of Medicare’s $550 billion annual budget spent on pt’s last six months.  Early use of palliative care significantly reduces these costs.  Big ticket items: Dialysis, ICU, Transplant, CV procedures and medications.  NYT: January 10th 2013 & Nov 20, 2013.

TWO RECENT BEST SELLERS.  1)Butler K: Knocking on Heaven’s Door:

The Path to a Better Way of Death— Scribner 2013.  Daughter describes her father’s EOL struggle.  Fink S: Five Days at Memorial: Life and death in a Storm Ravaged Hospital— Memorial Hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina-Aug 2005

KATRINA—NEW ORLEANS: Dr. Anna Maria Pou—Labor Day Weekend-Aug 2005.

Hurricane Katrina-Aug 2005.

Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun’s –Jihad—during Hurricane Katrina.

Tragedy of Katrina.

Post 9/11 life for Arabs/Muslims.

Xenophobia and Racial Profiling.

Beautiful nature of American multicultural society.

Natural Disasters.

Pres. Bush: “The worst moment of my presidency�.

Below: Hyatt Hotel in New Orleans.

WHAT IF?—No Lights. No Heat.

No Water: NYU-Sandy Oct 29/30/12

You were in a hospital in the midst of a natural catastrophe—hurricane, snow storm, sand storm and the power failed, and the heat climbed, all outside access was lost and you were providing care to very frail patients.  How would you react ???.  Memorial in New Orleans –Katrina Aug 2005.  NYU-Langone in NYC—Sandy—Oct 29/30/12.

Health Care Costs;  Federal-18% of GDP 2011-Medicare $554 billion—21% of total.  Of the $554 billion

28% or about $170 billion on pts in last six months of life.  Costs, Ethics & Concerns about EOLC will ensure continuing debate & scrutiny.  Kais. Health News: June 4th 2013 Daily Report.

The Quality of Dying and Death: Outcome Measure ?  If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve

it—Lord Kelvin.  Not everything that counts can be measured. Not everything that can be measured counts: Albert Einstein.  The Quality of Dying and Death—QODD?  Chest: Editorial 143 Feb 2013-289-290.

Jeddah Floods-- Nov 2009.

KAAU –Extensive Damage.

Nov 25,2009. Two yrs rainfall in 4 hrsdeath, destruction-> billion riyals.

Hurricane Sandy—LI South Shore-Oct 2012.

Sandy-Oct 2012窶年Y.

Jeddah Floods-- Nov 2009.

KAAU –Extensive Damage.

Nov 25,2009. Two yrs rainfall in 4 hrsdeath, destruction-> billion riyals.

TYPHOON- HAIYAN-Nov 2013

Natural Disasters: Public Health: Leaning J, Guha-Sapir D, Nov 7 N Engl J Med 2013; 369:1836-1842 .   

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The effects of armed conflict and natural disasters on global public health are widespread.

In the years ahead, the international community must address the root causes of these crises.

Natural disasters, particularly floods and storms, will become more frequent and severe because of climate change.

These events affect the mortality, morbidity, and wellbeing of large populations. Humanitarian relief will always be required, and there is a demonstrable need, as in other areas of global health, to place greater emphasis on prevention and mitigation.

CONCLUSIONS Unique opportunity to fathom the treasures and secrets of God’s creation Along with it grave and unprecedented risks Nevertheless, since we do not will unless God wills, can these breakthroughs be regarded as part of the divine will to afford humanity yet another opportunity for moral training and maturity (TARBIYAH) in our quest for excellence (IHSAN).

WASATHIYAH “Thus we have appointed you a middle nation, that you may be witness against mankind, and that the messenger may be witness against you …” 2:143

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LIJMC-NUMC-NSUH-NYU. Regent ACP. ACP-NYS Laureatte.

NDMF Awardee.

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Kids: Tania-Natashe-Nabil.

KSA—KAAU 2001, Buraidah, KFMC.

Thank You—Shukriya.