Ethical issues in the treatment of extremely low birth weight neonates
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Ethical issues in the treatment of extremely low birth weight neonates
During their everyday work in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), physicians face many ethical dilemmas. Modern technology increases the chances of survival even of extremely low birth weight (ELBW) newborns, with a minimum number of complications. In countries with guides and expert group recommendations, neonatologists’ decisions on limiting or withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment (...
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عنوان ژورنال: Croatian Medical Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0353-9504,1332-8166
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2016.57.395