Ethical dilemmas for critically ill babies. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Eduard Verhagen, Annie Janvier, editors.
• Editors: Verhagen, Eduard; Janvier, Annie
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; Abstract; References; 2 How Babies Die and Why This Is Important to Clinicians, Researchers, and Parents; Abstract; 2.1 Values, Policies, and Facts About Survival; 2.2 Outcome and Unit Philosophy; 2.3 Description of Circumstances Around the End-of-Life; References; 3 When Do We Become a Person and Why Should It Matter to Pediatricians?; Abstract; 3.1 Conception; 3.2 Pain; 3.3 Viability; 3.4 Sentience and Consciousness; 3.5 Birth; 3.6 Human Relationships; 3.7 Unique Human Characteristics; References; 4 Neonates Are Devalued Compared to Older Patients. Abstract4.1 Pain Treatment; 4.2 Nursery Environment; 4.3 Variations of Practice for Neonates; 4.4 Resuscitation and End of Life Decisions; 4.5 Economic Analysis of NICUs Compared to Other ICUs; 4.6 Neonatal Mortality in Poor Countries; 4.7 Why Are These Differential Considerations Tolerated for Neonates?; 4.8 Conclusion; References; 5 Who Makes It to the NICU? The Association Between Prenatal Decisions and Neonatal Outcomes; Abstract; 5.1 How Babies Die Outside of the NICU; 5.1.1 Late Terminations of Pregnancy; 5.1.2 Stillbirths; 5.1.3 Unsuccessful Resuscitations. 5.1.4 Neonates Who Receive Palliative Care at Birth5.2 Telling the Values from the Facts; 5.3 Conclusion; References; 6 Termination of Pregnancy and Perinatal Palliative Care in the Case of Fetal Anomaly: Why Is There so Much Incoherence?; Abstract; 6.1 The Fetus as a Patient; 6.2 Abortion; 6.3 The Challenge of Coherence Between Pre and Postnatal Periods; 6.4 In Practice; 6.5 Different Practice -- Different Views; 6.6 Parental Outcomes; 6.7 Could Perinatal Palliative Care Be an Alternative to a Late Interruption of Pregnancy for Fetal Anomaly? 6.8 Why Is Postnatal Palliative Care so Far from Termination of Pregnancy?References; 7 Predicting Outcomes in the Very Preterm Infant; Abstract; 7.1 What Do We Want to Predict?; 7.2 Predicting Outcomes Before Birth, Lack of Prediction by Gestational Age; 7.3 Predicting Outcomes in the Delivery Room, Lack of Prediction by Condition at Birth; 7.4 Predicting Outcomes by Early Ultrasound Findings; 7.5 Predicting Outcome by Clinical Course; 7.6 Predicting Outcomes by Other Modalities of Investigation; 7.7 Predicting Outcomes Near to Discharge; 7.8 Which Test Should Be Used as a Screening Test? 7.9 Can We Predict Adverse Long Term Outcomes, Should We, and Which Ones?7.10 Predicting Quality of Life; 7.11 Conclusion; References; 8 Predicting the Future of Preterm Infants: Should We Use Quality of Life and Social Determinants Criteria?; Abstract; 8.1 Predicting Quality of Life; 8.2 Outcome and Socio-Economic Factors; References; 9 End-of-Life Decisions in Neonatology from a Children's Rights Perspective: Dutch Developments Examined; Abstract; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 End-of-Life Decisions in Neonatolgy: A Children's Rights Issue; 9.3 Dutch Legal Framework; 9.4 Dutch Research.
• Publisher Details: Dordrecht : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 174.2/9892; Pediatrics -- Moral and ethical aspects; Pediatrics -- Decision making; Newborn infants -- Diseases; Critical Care -- ethics; Infant; Intensive Care Units, Neonatal -- ethics; Critical Illness; Withholding Treatment -- ethics; Bioethical Issues; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics; MEDICAL -- Pediatrics; MEDICAL -- Ethics; Newborn infants -- Diseases; Pediatrics -- Decision making; Pediatrics -- Moral and ethical aspects; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789401773607; 9401773602
• Related ISBNs: 9789401773591; 9401773599
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