Death in the Intensive Care Nursery: Physician Practice of Withdrawing and Withholding Life Support
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- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Pediatrics
- Vol. 99 (1) , 64-70
Abstract
Objective. To determine the frequency of selective nontreatment of extremely premature, critically ill, or malformed infants among all infant deaths in a level III intensive care nursery (ICN) and to determine the reasons documented by neonatologists for their decisions to withdraw or withhold life support.Keywords
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