Palliative care for prenatally diagnosed lethal fetal abnormality
| Autor: | Arvind Kumar, Edile M Murdoch, Christoph Lees, Andrew C. G. Breeze, H. Missfelder-Lobos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Parents
medicine.medical_specialty Palliative care Decision Making Short Report Reproductive medicine Gestational Age Prenatal diagnosis Fetus Pregnancy Feticide Prenatal Diagnosis medicine Humans Neonatology Obstetrics business.industry Palliative Care Obstetrics and Gynecology General Medicine medicine.disease Pregnancy Complications El Niño Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female business |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 92:F56-F58 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2052 1359-2998 |
| Popis: | Diagnosis of lethal fetal abnormality raises challenging decisions for parents and clinicians. Most parents opt for termination, which may include feticide. Advances in imaging seem unlikely to lead to earlier diagnoses. Perinatal palliative care offers an alternative. Parental decision making and the clinical aspects of perinatal palliative care were studied after a prenatal diagnosis of lethal fetal abnormality in 20 pregnancies. 40% of parents chose to continue the pregnancy and pursue perinatal palliative care. Six of these eight babies were liveborn and lived for between 1(1/2) h and 3 weeks. |
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