Ending innovative therapy for infants at the margins of viability: Case or twins H

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 251-256

  Paris, John J ^a   DeLisser, Horace M ^b   Savani, Rashmin C ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; STANDARD; TWINS; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TWINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034201694     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7200348     Document Type: Article

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