In recent years, highly publicized cases of the medical care of sick infants have brought
neonatal end-of-life practices under the public microscope. Treatment guidelines vary …

Despite advances in the care of infants, there remain many newborns whose medical
conditions are incompatible with sustained life. At times, healthcare providers and parents …

Muraskas et al. and Hefferman and Heilig present the painfully elusive ethical questions
regarding decisionmaking in the care of the extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants in the …

Over the past 30 years, there has been a modest improvement in the survival rates of US
infants. The public health impact of associated economic and technological advances raises …

precedent set in the Netherlands' Groningen Protocol, which holds that active euthanasia is
morally permissible in some neonatal critical care cases. Despite the working party's …

Scientific breakthroughs have greatly expanded the range in which medical professionals
can respond to patients. Although the medical field largely celebrates these advances, some …

Department of Pediatric Research, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, University of
Oslo, Oslo, Norway omy-based obligations toward the pregnant woman. This means that the …

Huang and colleagues provide some intriguing insights into the attitudes about end of life
care of practising Taiwanese neonatal doctors and nurses. 1 There are some similarities …

Despite tremendous advances in medical care for critically ill newborn infants, caregivers in
neonatal intensive care units still struggle with how to approach those patients whose …

Ethical treatment dilemmas are not new to the NICU. With technologic advances over the
past 20 years, NICU care has developed rapidly, and survival rates have improved for some …