Life and Death Decisions in the Nursery: Standards and Criteria for Withholding Lifesaving Treatment from Infants
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
نگرش و عملکرد پزشکان اطفال و زنان و زایمان شهرستانهای ساری و بابل در مورد قطع اقدامات احیا در نوزادان بسیار بدحال
Background and purpose: There are some debates with decision making for withdrawal/ withholding of life sustaining treatment in infants with adverse prognoses and incurable conditions. This study is conducted to review attitudes and practice of pediatrics and gynecology physicians in this field. Materials and methods: This survey was conducted during 2009 in Sari and Babol. A total of 140 pe...
متن کاملThe ideal of community in the work of the President's Commission.
Perhaps the appointed function of a Presidential Commission is to reassure people and not to disturb them. But I am disturbed by the tone of reassurance that blankets the Commission's report on Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment.' I hope I am wrong, but I am convinced that we are about to enter an era of medical practices that will push retarded, elderly, and gravely ill people toward...
متن کاملThe contribution of withholding or withdrawing care to newborn mortality.
OBJECTIVE We sought to determine the contribution of withholding or withdrawing care to neonatal mortality in our hospital over a 10-year period from 1993 through 2002. BACKGROUND Although not initiating or withholding intensive care for certain newborns has been practiced openly for the past 25 years, little information has been published concerning the results of these practices on neonatal...
متن کاملNurses' Experiences of Palliative Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Background & purpose: Despite recent advances in infant care technology, a number of infants are at risk in infancy period and need to palliative care. Nurses are responsible for the palliative care of the infants and the families. Therefore, the present study was conducted to explain the Nurses' Experiences of Palliative Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Materials and Methods: This st...
متن کاملEnd of life, death and dying in neonatal intensive care units in Latin America.
AIM Most analyses of end of life decisions in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) have come from Europe/English-speaking countries. Would decisions be different in Latin American NICUs? Therefore, we aim to evaluate the approach to dying infants/families in NICUs in Latin America. METHODS Multinational descriptive study of all deaths in babies born at >22 weeks in eight NICUs in five Latin ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014