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- Title
End-of-life after birth: death and dying in a neonatal intensive care unit.
- Authors
Singh, Jaideep; Lantos, John; Meadow, William
- Abstract
In canonical modern bioethics, withholding and withdrawing medical interventions for dying patients are considered morally equivalent. However, electing not to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) struck us as easily distinguishable from withdrawing mechanical ventilation. Moreover, withdrawing mechanical ventilation from a moribund infant "feels" different from withdrawing mechanical ventilation from a hemodynamically stable child with a severe neurologic insult. Most previous descriptions of withdrawing and withholding intervention in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) have blurred many of these distinctions. We hypothesized that clarifying them would more accurately portray the process of end-of-life decision-making in the NICU.
- Publication
Pediatrics, 2004, Vol 114, Issue 6, p1620
- ISSN
1098-4275
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1542/peds.2004-0447