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Are we allowed to discontinue medical treatment in this child?
Leeuwenburgh-Pronk, Wendela G; Miller-Smith, Laura; Forman, Vicki; Lantos, John D; Tibboel, Dick; Buysse, Corinne.
Pediatrics ; 135(3): 545-9, 2015 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25647670

ABSTRACT

One of the most difficult ethical dilemmas in pediatrics today arises when a child has complex chronic conditions that are not curable and cause discomfort with no prospect of any improvement on quality of life. In the context of medical futility, it is harmful to prolong medical treatment. The question is: How can medical treatment be discontinued when the child is not dependent on mechanical ventilation or ICU treatment? What is the appropriate palliative care and does it justify the use of sedatives or analgesics if this also might shorten life?


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Analgesics/administration & dosage , Ethics, Medical , Euthanasia, Passive/ethics , Hypnotics and Sedatives/administration & dosage , Intensive Care Units , Medical Futility/ethics , Palliative Care/ethics , Abnormalities, Multiple/therapy , Fatal Outcome , Female , Humans , Infant , Respiration, Artificial/ethics
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"Something is not right". An excerpt from This lovely life: a memoir of premature motherhood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009).
Forman, Vicki.
Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care ; 41(4): 125-6, 2011 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21440235

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Abnormalities, Multiple/psychology , Autobiographies as Topic , Infant, Premature/psychology , Stress, Psychological , Adaptation, Psychological , Books , Fatal Outcome , Female , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Intensive Care Units, Neonatal , Male , Neonatology , Pediatrics , Pregnancy
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