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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

OBJECTIVE: To clarify the process of end-of-life decision-making in culturally different
neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). STUDY DESIGN: Review of medical files of …

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 determine whether routine probiotic administration to very preterm infants
would reduce the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) without adverse …

Trisomy 13 and 18 are life‐limiting conditions for which a palliative approach is frequently
recommended. The objective of this study was to examine parental goals/decisions, the …

Background The natural history of all known patients with French-Canadian Leigh disease
(Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean cytochrome c oxidase deficiency, MIM220111, SLSJ-COX), the …