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- Title
Personal reflections on end-of-life care in a newborn infant.
- Authors
Ryan, Michelle
- Abstract
The author discusses how a medical personal manage an infant who experience seizures and had Grade 3 and 4 hemorrhages in the head. She suggests the need to communicate with parents on a daily basis to make the parents understand and stay abreast of the developments and gravity of their child's conditions. It is also essential to approach parents about palliation with a comfortable, nonthreatening environment, with only a few key people.
- Subjects
INFANT health services; MEDICAL personnel; QUALITY of life; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; PALLIATIVE treatment; INTERPERSONAL communication; EXPERIENCE; INFANT mortality; MEDICAL students; TERMINAL care; DECISION making in clinical medicine
- Publication
Paediatrics & Child Health (1205-7088), 2012, Vol 17, Issue 8, p440
- ISSN
1205-7088
- Publication type
Opinion
- DOI
10.1093/pch/17.8.440