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The most significant advance in obstetrics over the past two decades is the ability of healthcare professionals to consider the fetus as a separate individual and a potential patient in its own right. The advent of ultrasound made this conceptually possible and also allowed sonographers to visualize fetal behaviour. With the increasing number of invasive diagnostic and therapeutic antenatal procedures, the possibility of fetal awareness to iatrogenic and potentially noxious stimuli has been ethically important. This issue urged the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) to set up a Working Party, which comprised scientists in neuroanatomy and physiology, as well as, materno-fetal medicine specialists, anaesthetists and ethicists to review the available evidence on this subject. |
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