Seminars in Fetal & Neonatal Medicine: Palliative and End of Life Care in the NICU

Neonatal neurologic conditions represent a heterogeneous group of illnesses that can pose significant challenges to infants, their families, and clinicians. Neonates with neurologic injury are at increased risk for developmental and physical disabilities, seizures, spasticity, and pain, dependence on medical technologies, and death.1 While these children are at risk of increased morbidity and mortality, accurate prognostication is complex.
Source: Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine - Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Source Type: research