Infants of borderline viability: Ethical and clinical considerations

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-15

  Chiswick, Malcolm ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethics; Extreme prematurity; Extremely low birth weight; Neonatal intensive care; Neurodisability; Parental involvement; Survival; Value of life; Withdrawal of care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIOETHICS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY ROOM; DISABILITY; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; INFANT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PARENT COUNSELING; PREMATURITY; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MEDICAL FUTILITY; PARENTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 37349049983     PISSN: 1744165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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