Critical care decisions in fetal and neonatal medicine: ethical issues
Thu, 16 November 2006
The Council published a Report on 16 November 2006.
CCD coverAdvances in medicine mean that families and health professionals can be faced with very difficult decisions about the care of extremely premature or seriously ill babies, which may concern:
- the care of a fetus and mother prior to birth;
- whether to resuscitate a newborn baby, and admit him or her to neonatal intensive care; and
- whether to continue intensive care or replace active treatment with palliative care.
These decisions are complex, emotionally demanding and may have lifelong consequences.
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Last Updated Thu, 30 November 2006