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May 2016 List
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Ethical Dilemmas In Postnatal Treatment Of Severe Congenital Hydrocephalus.
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Cambridge Quarterly Of Healthcare Ethics
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2016
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Decision Making/ethics; Ethics Medical; Female; Humans; Hydrocephalus/diagnosis; Hydrocephalus/therapy; Infant; Infant Premature; Intensive Care Neonatal/ethics; Male; Medical Futility/ethics; Postnatal Care/ethics; Quality Of Life; Severity Of Illness Index; Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt/ethics; Withholding Treatment/ethics
Children; Hydrocephalus; Medical Ethics; Medical Futility; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Withdrawing Treatment
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Wilkinson D
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Severe congenital hydrocephalus manifests as accumulation of a large amount of excess fluid in the brain. It is a paradigmatic example of a condition in which diagnosis is relatively straightforward and long-term survival is usually associated with severe disability. It might be thought that, should parents agree, palliative care and limitation of treatment would be clearly permissible on the basis of the best interests of the infant. However, severe congenital hydrocephalus illustrates some of the neuroethical challenges in pediatrics. The permissibility of withholding or withdrawing treatment is limited by uncertainty in prognosis and the possibility of "palliative harm." Conversely, although there are some situations in which treatment is contrary to the interests of the child, or unreasonable on the grounds of limited resources, acute surgical treatment of hydrocephalus rarely falls into that category.
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2016
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
Children
Decision Making/ethics
Ethics Medical
Female
Humans
Hydrocephalus
Hydrocephalus/diagnosis
Hydrocephalus/therapy
Infant
Infant Premature
Intensive Care Neonatal/ethics
Male
May 2016 List
Medical Ethics
Medical Futility
Medical Futility/ethics
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Postnatal Care/ethics
Quality Of Life
Severity Of Illness Index
Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt/ethics
Wilkinson D
Withdrawing Treatment
Withholding Treatment/ethics