Executive summary of the workshop on the border of viability

Pediatrics

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1392-1396

  Higgins, Rosemary D ^a   Delivoria Papadopoulos, Maria ^b   Raju, Tonse N K ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Ethics; Fetal death; Intensive care; Neonatal resuscitation; Prematurity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DELIVERY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; FLUID INTAKE; GESTATION PERIOD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN MONITORING; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OBSTETRIC CARE; PARENT COUNSELING; PERINATAL CARE; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEONATOLOGY; NEWBORN; OBSTETRICS; PERINATOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; NEONATOLOGY; OBSTETRICS; PERINATOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL CARE; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 25144461186     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-1989     Document Type: Conference Paper

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