Editorial: Palliative and End of Life Care in the NICU Issue I

It has been fifty years since Duff and Campbell ’s seminal article in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled “Moral and Ethical Dilemmas in the Special Care Nursery.”1 In 1973, those authors described the circumstances surrounding 299 consecutive newborn deaths at Yale New Haven Hospital, in what is said to be the first modern newborn intensive care unit (NICU) in the United States. The authors drew a great deal of attention and controversy, because they were among the first to publicly acknowledge that many newborn deaths were the immediate result of decisions, reached by physicians and parents working together, to withdraw or withhold available technology.
Source: Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine - Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research