Ethical Issues around Death and Withdrawal of Life Support in Neonatal Intensive Care
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Ethical issues in neonatal intensive care.
Recent progress in neonatal care have significantly improved the prognosis and chances of survival of critically ill or extremely preterm neonates and have modified the limits of viability. However, in some circumstances, when the child's death can only be briefly postponed at the price of severe suffering, or when survival is associated with severe disabilities and an intolerable life for the ...
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OBJECTIVES To compare the modes of death and factors leading to withdrawal or limitation of life support in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in a developing country. METHODS Retrospective analysis of all children (< 12 years) dying in the PICU from January 1995 to December 1995 and January 1997 to June 1998 (n = 148). RESULTS The main mode of death was by limitation of treatment in 6...
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Technical advances in the care of advanced illness have created ethical challenges for physicians, patients, and families at the end of life. In the effort to survive longer, they are often confronted with difficult choices regarding medical advances that may inadvertently prolong suffering and the dying process rather than bring healing and recovery. Four major principles of medical ethics ass...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2021
ISSN: 0019-5456,0973-7693
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-021-03810-9