Spiritual and cultural influences on end-of-life care and decision-making in NICU

PC Ng, GPG Fung - Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding and respecting the spiritual beliefs, ethnic roots, cultural norms and customs
of individual families is essential for neonatologists to provide clinically appropriate and …

Ethical issues in treatment of babies born at 22 weeks of gestation

JD Lantos - Archives of disease in childhood, 2021 - adc.bmj.com
Many centres now report that more than half of babies born at 22 weeks survive and most
survivors are neurocognitively intact. Still, many centres do not offer life-sustaining treatment …

Resilience rather than medical factors: how parents predict quality of life of their sick newborn

A Ferrand, A Gorgos, N Ali, A Payot - The Journal of pediatrics, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective To assess the influence of resiliency and stress on parental perspectives of the
future quality of life (QOL) of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) newborns at high risk of …

What can make things better for parents when babies need abdominal surgery in their first year of life? A qualitative interview study in the UK

L Hinton, L Locock, AM Long, M Knight - BMJ open, 2018 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To understand the experiences of parents of infants who required surgery early in
life. To identify messages and training needs for the extended clinical teams caring for these …

The evidence base for surgical treatment of infants with necrotizing enterocolitis or spontaneous intestinal perforation: Impact of trial design and questions regarding …

PT Evans, ML Blakely, AS Mixon, J Canvasser… - Seminars in Pediatric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Few neonatal surgical therapies have been studied within randomized clinical trials (RCT). 1
For the few treatments that have been evaluated with RCTs, decades of use of the available …