Intensive medical care for neonates may present medically complex and ethically
challenging issues affecting not only patients but also their families and the professionals …

The debate surrounding neurologically devastated newborns, whether due to severe
prematurity or genetic malformations, has continued for over 40 years. Duff and Campbell …

Ethical issues in the critical care unit frequently arise in children with neurological problems.
These ethical issues frequently challenge our medical management of such cases and can …

Decision-making for the severely neurologically compromised newborn is fraught with
considerable medical and ethical difficulties. Multiple intrinsic and extrinsic factors challenge …

Given the severity and complexity of the neurologic disordes that can affect infants and
children, pediatric neurologists frequently encounter complex and challenging ethical …

Medical ethics in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) traditionally have been pursued in
several dimensions simultaneously: paternalism versus autonomy, rights versus obligations …

The practice of pediatric neurology demands a high level of responsibility at multiple levels.
These include listening carefully to people's stories in order to assess each situation …

Most physicians and lay people believe that there are situations—usually described in terms
of age of the individual, future quality of life, decreased life expectancy, or hardship on family …

The unexpected birth of a critically ill baby raises many ethical questions for neonatologists.
Some of these are obviously ethical questions, about whether to attempt resuscitation, and, if …

A thorough understanding of clinical ethics is essential in all areas of medicine but no more
so than in the complex and evolving field of paediatric neurosurgery. 1, 2 Many of the issues …