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Neonatal medicine
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  • Introduction
  • Background: extremely premature babies
  • The value of human life
  • Best interests
  • Deliberately ending life
  • Decision making
  • Guidelines on intensive care for extremely premature babies
  • Further recommendations
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Chapter downloads

You can download the individual chapters of this report using the links below. (All files are PDFs and less than 850 KB)

Chapter 1 – Introduction

Chapter 2 – Decision making: the ethical issues

Chapter 3 – The context for decision making in fetal and neonatal care

Chapter 4 – Dilemmas in current practice: the fetus

Chapter 5 – Dilemmas in current practice: babies born at the borderline of viability

Chapter 6 – Dilemmas in current practice: babies needing intensive care

Chapter 7 – Living with disability

Chapter 8 – Decision making: regulation and resolution

Chapter 9 – Conclusions and recommendation

 

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See also

  • Neonatal medicine - Guidelines on intensive care for extremely premature babies
  • Neonatal medicine - Further recommendations
  • Neonatal medicine - Decision making
  • Neonatal medicine - Deliberately ending life
  • Neonatal medicine - Best interests
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