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College of Law, Chicago, IL, USA Insights from Dostoevsky For many parents stopping life - sustaining medical treatment on their dying The desire of parents to avoid responsibility for the death of a infant ...
be considered and examined. INTRODUCTION A New Zealand court recently gave the Director of Newborn Services at the National Women's Hospital in Auckland the authority to withdraw life ‐ sustaining treatment from ...
AbstractBACKGROUND:A poor prognosis based on mortality or disability rates can push physicians to discuss withdrawal of life - sustaining therapy (WLST) for newborns in the NICU. However, WLST may ...
. In this paper I focus on the example of neonatal encephalopathy and the question of the timing of prognostic tests and decisions to continue or to withdraw life ‐ sustaining treatment . Should testing be performed ...
to find a single case of withhold- Tously ill and handicapped newborns . For thou- ing life - sustaining treatment from an infant based on a di- sands of years, parents exercised virtual ownership over ...
to the foetuses and neonates of narcotic-dependent mothers . Bull Narc 1979; 31:1-58. 9. Kahn EJ, Neumann LL, Polk GA: The course of the heroin withdrawal syndrome in newborn infants treated with phenobarbital ...
intensive treatment on the basis of poor neurological prognosis.14 Furthermore, influential professional guidelines support the withdrawal of life support from newborns on the basis of predicted quality ...
- sustaining treatment (WWLST) or despite maximum care − was associated with subsequent risk of parental anxiety or depression. The secondary objective was to assess parents’ perceptions of end-of- life care ...
Wilkinson, ‘A Life Worth Giving? The Threshold for Permissible Withdrawal of Life Support from Disabled Newborn Infants ’ (2011) 11 American Journal of Bioethics 20. 16 Dresser (n 14). 17 Portsmouth NHS Trust ...
the permanently unconscious patient, we are not withdrawing from the battle against any illness or disease; we are withholding the nourishment that sustains all life ” [2]. Food and drink, being central ...
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