Dr. Annie Janvier, author on Dr Annie Janvier

Communication with parents concerning withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining interventions in neonatology

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 greatly. These depend upon the status of the infant; for some neonates, death may be imminent, while other infants may be relatively stable, yet with a potential risk for surviving with severe disability.

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Moral distress in the neonatal intensive care unit: caregiver’s experience

To determine the frequency with which nurses and residents have experienced ethical confrontations and what factors are associated with increased frequency.

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The ethics of neonatal resuscitation at the margins of viability: informed consent and outcomes.

To determine the adequacy of records of parental counseling in mothers with threatened preterm delivery before 27 weeks gestation, whether interventions performed at birth were consistent with recorded antenatal decisions and whether extent of resuscitation affected the occurrence of serious short-term morbidity.

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