urn:uuid:5ac8e366-c724-443a-b7b4-45344732ece3 Wilkinson, DJ Savulescu, J doi:10.1097/ACO.0b013e328343c5af 2011-4 eng Knowing when to stop: futility in the ICU. issn:0952-7907 Symplectic Elements at Oxford Scopus (http://www.scopus.com/home.url) PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) Web of Science (Lite) (http://apps.webofknowledge.com/summary.do) local:192311 Euthanasia, Passive Humans Intensive Care Intensive Care Units Medical Futility Resuscitation Orders Withholding Treatment eissn:1473-6500 Journal article Decisions to withdraw or withhold potentially life-sustaining treatment are common in intensive care and precede the majority of deaths. When families resist or oppose doctors' suggestions that it is time to stop treatment, it is often unclear what should be done. This review will summarize recent literature around futility judgements in intensive care emphasising ethical and practical questions. http://journals.lww.com/co-anesthesiology/ text Published Publisher's version Published Copyright 2011 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. This is a non-final version of an article published in final form in Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 24(2), April 2011, 160-165.