from Part I - Starting at the Beginning
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2025
In this chapter of Complex Ethics Consultations: Cases that Haunt Us, the authors reflect on the case of a term newborn with cardiac, respiratory, skeletal, and renal anomalies. His prognosis was unclear. Just as his respiratory status begins to improve, the baby’s parents request discontinuation of mechanical ventilation, believing he faced an inevitable, protracted death. The covering NICU team requests an ethics consultation. The consultant supports the parent’s decision and the baby died in his parent’s arms. When the NICU team returns, they express great concern, believing that terminal withdrawal at this point should have been discouraged, leaving the authors haunted by the consultation.
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