Fetal Treatment 1982

TLDR

The conference reviewed experimental and clinical experience with fetal treatment to assess benefits, liabilities, directions, and problems to avoid. The meeting brought together 13 centers from 5 countries to discuss management of fetuses with correctable congenital defects. Participants agreed to exchange information cooperatively and establish a registry of treated cases. No additional information.

Abstract

Perinatal obstetricians, surgeons, ultrasonographers, pediatricians, bioethicists, and physiologists from centers active in fetal treatment (13 centers in 5 countries) gathered at Santa Ynez Valley, California, from July 19 to 23, 1982, for a conference hosted by the Kroc Foundation entitled "Unborn: Management of the fetus with a correctable congenital defect." Experimental and clinical experience with fetal treatment was intensively reviewed in order to assess the potential benefits and liabilities of various interventions, the directions to be pursued, and the problems to be avoided. The participants agreed to pursue cooperative exchange of information, to establish a registry of treated cases, and . . .