Letter to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 1025-1026
Author(s):  
Helen Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
Premature Babies ◽  
Support Organizations ◽  
Family Centered

The parents who drafted "The Principles For Family-Centered Neonatal Care"1 have all spent considerable time in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Most of us are parents of two or more premature babies. We are familiar with NICU families of all backgrounds through our work in support organizations, disability rights groups, and ethics committees. Our university educations may have made us better able to understand and articulate the issues, but they did not significantly alter our experience in the NICU.

scholarly journals Too Expensive to Treat? Non-Treatment Decisions at the Margins of Viability

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-481
Author(s):  
Tatiana Flessas ◽  
Emily Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Premature Infant ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Treatment Decisions ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
The State ◽  
Premature Babies

Abstract This article seeks to challenge the assumption that it is legitimate to consider the costs of premature babies’ future social and educational needs when deciding what treatment, if any, to provide in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) . It questions the elision that is made between the claim that a particular treatment is insufficiently cost-effective and the claim that a person will be a burden on the state in the future. It discusses a series of common misunderstandings about how treatment decisions are taken in the NICU and concludes by suggesting that the claim that premature babies are too expensive to treat may depend upon regarding a premature infant as if she were not yet a person, with rights and interests of her own.

scholarly journals Family centered care and practice in the neonatal intensive care unit

Rev Rene ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. e39767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruna Caroline Rodrigues ◽  
Roberta Tognollo Borotta Uema ◽  
Gabrieli Patrício Rissi ◽  
Larissa Carolina Segantini Felipin ◽  
Ieda Harumi Higarashi
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Family Centered Care ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Family Centered

Effects of implementing family-centered rounds (FCRs) in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 1403-1406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin C. Voos ◽  
Gail Ross ◽  
Mary J. Ward ◽  
Anne-Lise Yohay ◽  
Snezana Nena Osorio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Family Centered
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