Perinatal management of extreme preterm birth before 27 weeks of gestation: a framework for practice

Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2020 May;105(3):232-239. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2019-318402. Epub 2020 Jan 24.

Authors

Helen Mactier¹, Sarah Elizabeth Bates², Tracey Johnston³, Caroline Lee-Davey⁴, Neil Marlow⁵, Kate Mulley⁶, Lucy K Smith⁷, Meekai To⁸, Dominic Wilkinson⁹; BAPM Working Group

Collaborators

BAPM Working Group:
Erica Everett, Tara Selman

Affiliations

¹ Neonatology, Princess Royal Maternity, Glasgow, UK Helen.Mactier@glasgow.ac.uk.
² Women and Children's, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Swindon, UK.
³ Department of Fetal and Maternal Medicine, Birmingham Women and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
⁴ Bliss, London, UK.
⁵ Institute for Women's Health, University College London, London, UK.
⁶ Sands, London, UK.
⁷ Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
⁸ King's College Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK.
⁹ Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

PMID: 31980443
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2019-318402

No abstract available

Keywords: ethics; neonatology; resuscitation.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Congenital Abnormalities / epidemiology
Decision Making
Female
Gestational Age*
Humans
Infant, Extremely Premature*
Infant, Newborn
Intensive Care Units, Neonatal / statistics & numerical data
Intensive Care, Neonatal / organization & administration
Labor, Obstetric / physiology
Life Support Care
Parents / psychology
Patient Comfort
Perinatal Care / organization & administration
Perinatal Mortality
Practice Guidelines as Topic*
Pregnancy
Premature Birth / mortality
Premature Birth / physiopathology*
Premature Birth / therapy*
Prognosis
Risk Assessment
Sex Factors

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