Is Treatment Futile for an Extremely Premature Infant With Giant Omphalocele?

Doctors have no ethical obligation to provide futile treatment. This has been true since the time of Hippocrates who warned physicians not to treat patients who were "overmastered by their disease." This principle remains valid today but, as the Society for Critical Care Medicine notes, it...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Pediatrics (Evanston) 2014, Vol.133 (1), p.123-128
Hauptverfasser:	FELTMAN, Dalia, STOKES, Theophil, KETT, Jennifer, LANTOS, John D
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abdomen Biological and medical sciences Birth defects Care and treatment Company business management Ethics Evaluation Family physicians Female Frustration General aspects Health aspects Hernia Hernia, Umbilical - therapy Herniorrhaphy - ethics Humans Infant, Extremely Premature Infant, Newborn Infant, Premature, Diseases - therapy Infants (Premature) Intensive Care, Neonatal - ethics Management Medical ethics Medical Futility - ethics Medical sciences Navel Neonatology - ethics Palliative care Palliative Care - ethics Palliative treatment Pediatrics Physicians Practice Premature birth Premature infants Professional-Family Relations - ethics Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Resuscitation - ethics Teaching. Deontology. Ethics. Legislation Umbilical hernia
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