Bioethics problems with extremely preterm infants (EPI) at birth
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Bioethics problems with extremely preterm infants (EPI) at birth
Background Each year, about 500,000 children are born in Italy and less than a thousand with a gestational age less than 26 weeks. In the past, they would very often be considered miscarriages or stillbirths. In recent years there has been a significant increase in their survival and the threshold of viability has gradually lowered to 22 weeks. The first bioethical issue on the health care of t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Italian Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1824-7288
DOI: 10.1186/1824-7288-41-s2-a24