Critically Ill Newborns: what ethical principles or approaches can be applied to guide clinicians and parents through the care provided to this child?
Critically Ill Newborns The newborn intensive care unit (NICU) is a common setting for difficult ethical challenges, often involving life-and-death decisions. These may include withholding treatment such as resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, or surgery, or withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment such as mechanical ventilation and artificial nutrition and hydration. Such decisions are frequently faced because of the … Read more