If you have experienced a challenging ethical dilemma that you think might make for an
interesting case study or opinion piece to share with your neonatal colleagues, or if you …

Objective: NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS including ANENCEPHALY, ENCEPHALOCELE, and
SPINA BIFIDA are major congenital malformations with multifactorial etiology, and with a …

Background: Neural tube defects (NTDs) are important factors in fetal and infant morbidity
and mortality with variations in incidence and ethnic distribution. This study was carried out …

Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurses are often faced with complex clinical and ethical
problems. Little is known about the role of the NICU nurse in ethical decision‐making, or …

Materials and Methods: This was a prospective study done over a period of 6 years from
August, 2007 to July, 2013. All cases of NTDs delivered as abortion, still born and live born …

Background: Neural tube defects are common and major birth defects. Their incidence
varies according to the geographic conditions, race, sex of the baby and certain maternal …

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

Abstract Background Neural tube defects (NTDs) account for the largest proportion of
congenital anomalies of the central nervous system and result from failure of the neural tube …

Background: Currently preterm births are the leading causes of newborn deaths and
newborn mortality in developed countries. Infants born prematurely remain vulnerable to …

Background: Neonatal nurse practitioners have become the frontline staff exposed to a
myriad of ethical issues that arise in the day-to-day environment of the neonatal intensive …