Delivery room practices for extremely preterm infants: the harms of the gestational age label

Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2016 Sep;101(5):F375-6. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-310466. Epub 2016 Apr 8.

Authors

Annie Janvier¹, John Lantos²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Clinical Ethics Unit, Palliative Care Unit, Department of Neonatology, Research Center, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
² Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Ethics, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

PMID: 27059071
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-310466

No abstract available

Keywords: Children's Rights; Ethics; Neonatology; Palliative Care; Resuscitation.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Delivery Rooms
Europe / epidemiology
Gestational Age
Humans
Infant
Infant Mortality
Infant, Extremely Premature*
Intensive Care, Neonatal*
Prognosis
Survival Rate