Withdrawing support for withdrawing support from premature infants with severe intracranial hemorrhage

Pediatrics

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1071-1072

  Sawyer, Taylor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DYING; HIGH RISK INFANT; HUMAN; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; NOTE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR;

CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 44449130090     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-0273     Document Type: Letter

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