The Ethics of Dnr Orders as to Neonatal & Pediatric Patients: the Ethical Dimension of Communication
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Angela is a 34-week neonatal patient born at 27 weeks gestation with a birth weight of 2 pounds. She has had a rough course in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. For the past two and a half weeks, Angela’s saturation rate has been in the low thirties, forties, and fifties. Whether she is on high frequency ventilation or regular ventilation, there seems to be no appreciable difference in saturation rate. Angela’s 17-year-old mother and her grandmother want “everything done.” Mother reports that she does not know who is Angela’s father. What are the physician’s options? What are the attendant ethical issues?1
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