End-of-life after birth: Death and dying in a neonatal intensive care unit

Pediatrics

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1620-1626

  Singh, Jaideep ^a   Lantos, John ^a   Meadow, William ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethics; NICU; Withdrawing withholding

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; DOPAMINE;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD DEATH; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DYING; EXTUBATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ETHICS; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MEDICAL FUTILITY; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 16644392541     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-0447     Document Type: Review

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