Threading the Needle for the Tiniest Babies

Bree Andrews; Lainie Friedman Ross

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.07.030

Threading the Needle for the Tiniest Babies

J Pediatr. 2017 Nov:190:8-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.07.030.

Authors

Bree Andrews¹, Lainie Friedman Ross²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics Section of Neonatology and Center for Healthy Families.
² Clinical Ethics Department of Pediatrics Section of Academic Pediatrics and the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois. Electronic address: lross@uchicago.edu.

PMID: 29144276
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.07.030

No abstract available

Keywords: end-of-life discussions; life-sustaining treatment; morbidity; mortality; neonatal intensive care unit; resuscitation; withdrawal; withholding.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature*
Withholding Treatment*