Decisions to Withdraw Life Support in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- 1 November 1983
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Clinical Pediatrics
- Vol. 22 (11) , 729-736
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000992288302201101
Abstract
Neonatal intensive care units may choose to selectively withdraw support in some neonates with severe brain damage. We offer suggestions for criteria for such withdrawal, and a review of 20 cases in which such a decision-making process occurred in our neonatal intensive care unit.Keywords
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