Non-maleficence defined by the Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees (2007) consists of “avoiding actions likely to cause harm to the patient” (p. 15) and this “principle grounds the obligation to avoid the intentional infliction of harm or suffering, recognizing that conceptions of harm, like good, are inextricably linked to individual values ​​and interests” (pp. 16-17). At this stage of the patient's condition, interventions to correct the internal bleeding would be considered unnecessary medical treatment: they will not help the patient or change the underlying disease, they would simply prolong life for the patient. pleasure and probably make the patient very uncomfortable in the long term. The use of medical interventions that may rapidly prolong the patient's life but deteriorate the patient's quality of life is not in the patient's best interest or benefit..