Neonatologists and parents usually agree when intensive treatment should be stopped. We describe the management of two babies where there was disagreement between the parents and hospital staff, and discuss the medical, legal and ethical implications of the two cases
In the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), healthcare professionals regularly conclude that withdra...
Abstract Background In the last 20 years, the chances for intact survival for extremely preterm infa...
One ethical dilemma which neonatologists are faced with on a regular basis is selective non-treatmen...
Discontinuation of intensive care treatment is a factor in most infant deaths occurring in the neona...
Neonatal medicine is a relatively young specialty, having existed for about 40 years. There have bee...
Seemingly intractable disagreements between parents and doctors about the treatment of gravely ill i...
As advances in medical technology are constantly re-defining the lower limit of newborn viability, t...
Abstract Objective: To investigate whether parent-initiated or doctor-initiated decisions about lim...
respectively Dilemmas about resuscitation and life-prolonging treatment for severely compromised inf...
International audienceDuring the last few years, several maternity departments in Paris hospitals ha...
The improvements in the obstetrical and neonatal diagnosis and therapies have resulted into an incre...
The ethical issues around decision making on behalf of infants have been illuminated by two empirica...
One ethical dilemma which neonatologists are faced with on a regular basis is selective non-treatmen...
ABSTRACT. Objective. In canonical modern bioeth-ics, withholding and withdrawing medical interventio...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Pediatric bioethics presumes that decisions should be taken in the child'...
In the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), healthcare professionals regularly conclude that withdra...
Abstract Background In the last 20 years, the chances for intact survival for extremely preterm infa...
One ethical dilemma which neonatologists are faced with on a regular basis is selective non-treatmen...
Discontinuation of intensive care treatment is a factor in most infant deaths occurring in the neona...
Neonatal medicine is a relatively young specialty, having existed for about 40 years. There have bee...
Seemingly intractable disagreements between parents and doctors about the treatment of gravely ill i...
As advances in medical technology are constantly re-defining the lower limit of newborn viability, t...
Abstract Objective: To investigate whether parent-initiated or doctor-initiated decisions about lim...
respectively Dilemmas about resuscitation and life-prolonging treatment for severely compromised inf...
International audienceDuring the last few years, several maternity departments in Paris hospitals ha...
The improvements in the obstetrical and neonatal diagnosis and therapies have resulted into an incre...
The ethical issues around decision making on behalf of infants have been illuminated by two empirica...
One ethical dilemma which neonatologists are faced with on a regular basis is selective non-treatmen...
ABSTRACT. Objective. In canonical modern bioeth-ics, withholding and withdrawing medical interventio...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Pediatric bioethics presumes that decisions should be taken in the child'...
In the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), healthcare professionals regularly conclude that withdra...
Abstract Background In the last 20 years, the chances for intact survival for extremely preterm infa...
One ethical dilemma which neonatologists are faced with on a regular basis is selective non-treatmen...