Treatment decisions regarding infants

Treatment decisions regarding infants, children and adolescents

INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN. Preschool children have no significant skills to participate in decision-making in any meaningful way. Therefore, surrogate decision ...

Treatment Decisions for Seriously Ill Newborns | AMA-Code

Code of Ethics Opinions pages. Decisions not to initiate care or to discontinue an intervention can be emotionally wrenching for the parents of a seriously ...

Treatment decisions regarding infants, children and adolescents

To ensure that the best decisions are made for children and adolescents, these decisions should be made jointly by members of the health care team, the chi.

An Uncomfortable Companion to Decision-making for Infants

Providers and parents alike must grapple with the challenge of deciding what is “right” for an infant when making difficult health care ...

Making treatment decisions for babies, children and teens - PMC

Decisions should be made jointly by members of the health care team, their parents, and sometimes the children themselves.

2.2.4 Treatment Decisions for Seriously Ill Newborns

To help parents formulate goals for their newborn's care and make decisions about life-sustaining treatment on their child's behalf, physicians should: (a) ...

Medical decision-making in paediatrics: Infancy to adolescence

Health care providers (HCPs), while not decision-makers per se, have a significant role in medical decision-making throughout childhood. This ...

End-of-Life Decision Making for Unborn and Newborn Infants

8 Parents and providers can plan as best they can with the information they have, but health care decisions must be reevaluated upon the infant's birth, and as ...

Ethical Decision-Making in the Health Care of Newborn Infant

The prevailing standard of judgment for healthcare decisions regarding newborn infants is the young child's best interests. It is a concept that attempts to ...

Informed Consent in Decision-Making in Pediatric Practice

Knowledge about a medical condition is critical to making informed health care decisions by and for adults, adolescents, children, and infants.

Making treatment decisions for babies, children and teens

Making treatment decisions for a child's illness can be stressful and difficult. To ensure your child benefits from treatment, decisions should be made ...

Defending Children and Infants in Medical Care Decisions Made by ...

One of the primary principles of bioethics is autonomy in which individuals make personal medical decisions for themselves,[4]but it is obvious ...

Medical decision-making in paediatrics: Infancy to adolescence

When making treatment decisions for an incapable paediatric patient, the primary concerns of health care providers (HCPs) and SDMs should be to ...

Initiating end-of-life decisions with parents of infants receiving ...

Explicitly proposing treatment options may provide parents with opportunities to be involved in decisions for their critically ill babies, thereby fostering ...

Parental Decision Making | UW Department of Bioethics & Humanities

Adult patients have the moral and legal right to make decisions about their own medical care. Because young children are not able to make complex decisions for ...

Initiating end-of-life decisions with parents of infants receiving ...

To investigate whether parent-initiated or doctor-initiated decisions about limiting life-sustaining treatment (LST) in neonatal care has consequences for how ...

Pediatric Decision-Making - Vermont Ethics Network

Children under the age of 18 are generally considered as not having the capacity to make health care decisions for themselves and cannot give informed consent.

Treatment Decisions for Newborns at the Threshold of Viability

When possible, the decision of whether or not to resuscitate should be made before delivery; when not possible, delivery room resuscitation is ...

Pediatric Decision Making Recommendations Empower Parents ...

Almost always, parents and doctors agree on treatment plans for a child. The new consensus recommendations provide a framework to help the ...

Minority report: can minor parents refuse treatment for their child?

Infants are unable to make their own decisions or express their own wishes about medical procedures and treatments. They rely on surrogates to make decisions ...