National ethical directives and practical aspects of forgoing life-sustaining treatment in newborn infants in a Swiss intensive care unit

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Title		National ethical directives and practical aspects of forgoing life-sustaining treatment in newborn infants in a Swiss intensive care unit
Authors		Berner, Michel Rimensberger, Peter Hüppi, Petra Susan Pfister, Riccardo
Published in		Swiss Medical Weekly. 2006, vol. 136, no. 37-38, p. 597-602
Abstract		How do actual aspects of forgoing life supporting therapy (LST) in newborn infants compare with national ethical directives in a Swiss intensive care unit?
Keywords		Decision Making/ethics — Ethics, Clinical — Euthanasia, Active — Gestational Age — Guideline Adherence — Health Policy — Humans — Infant, Newborn — Intensive Care Units, Neonatal/ethics — Life Support Care/ethics — Medical Futility — Switzerland — Withholding Treatment/ethics
Identifiers		PMID: 17043953
Full text		Article (Published version) (211 Kb) - Limited access to UNIGE
Structures		Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de pédiatrie, gynécologie et obstétrique
Research groups		L'imagerie cérébrale (184) Maladies pulmonaires aigues et pathologies cardiaques congénitales (697) Réanimation néonatale en salle d'accouchement (696)
Citation (ISO format)		BERNER, Michel et al. National ethical directives and practical aspects of forgoing life-sustaining treatment in newborn infants in a Swiss intensive care unit. In: Swiss Medical Weekly, 2006, vol. 136, n° 37-38, p. 597-602. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:54917

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