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Ethical Problems in Neonatal Intensive Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Kari O. Raivio
Kari O. Raivio
Affiliation:
Children's Hospital, Helsinki
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Treatment decisions in the delivery room and neonatal intensive care unit are often life-and-death decisions. In a true Hippocratic spirit of “do no harm,” the guiding principle should be the long-term outlook for the infant and the family. This is usually, but not always, determined by the prospects of normal or near normal mental development versus incapacitating injury.

Type
The Ethics of NIC
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 7 , Supplement S1 , January 1991 , pp. 136 - 138
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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