Decisions to Withdraw Life Support in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Stephen C. Ragatz, Patricia H. Ellison

Clinical Pediatrics · 1983 · 14 citations · 16 references

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Abstract

Neonatal intensive care units may choose to selectively withdraw support in some neonates with severe brain damage. We offer suggestions for criteria for such withdrawal, and a review of 20 cases in which such a decision-making process occurred in our neonatal intensive care unit.

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