Caring for an infant with trisomy 18: A case study and guidelines
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Caring for an infant with trisomy 18: A case study and guidelines
Much of the literature describes the prognosis for infants with full trisomy 18 as bleak. The case study offered here provides an overview of an infant with this diagnosis who lived for 88.5 days in a Level III neonatal intensive care unit. Care decisions (medical and basic care) and their outcomes are described along with implications for care for infants with a diagnosis often characterized a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Nursing Studies
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2324-7959,2324-7940
DOI: 10.5430/cns.v2n1p30