The nature and content of the conversations between the healthcare team and the parents
concerning withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining interventions for neonates vary …

Objective To review the literature on moral distress experienced by nursing and medical
professionals within neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and paediatric intensive care units (…

Fifty years ago, it was not rare for infants born with congenital anomalies or near-term to die.
Neonatology is a recent specialty, emerging in the 1960s as a discipline dedicating itself to …

For parents, the experience of having an infant in the NICU is often psychologically traumatic.
No parent can be fully prepared for the extreme stress and range of emotions of caring for …

Trisomy 13 and trisomy 18 (T13‐18) are associated with high rates of perinatal death and
with severe disability among survivors. Prenatal diagnosis (PND) may lead many women to …

Objective: To quantify moral distress in neonatal ICU and PICU clinicians and to identify
associated factors. Design: A national cross-sectional survey of clinicians working in an …

OBJECTIVE. Legal and ethical standards require resuscitation when it is considered to be
in the patient's best interest. We hypothesized that newborn infants might be dealt with …

Parenting in the NICU is an intense journey. Parents struggle to build intimacy with their child
amid complex emotions and medical uncertainties. They need to rapidly adapt their vision …

METHODS: We determined the number of days that apnea and bradycardia spells were
noted by the nursing staff, during the initial hospitalization of 175 preterm infants of less than< …

BACKGROUND: Children with trisomy 13 and trisomy 18 (T13-18) have low survival rates
and survivors have significant disabilities. For these reasons, interventions are generally not …