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Assessment and Evaluation of the High Risk Neonate: The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale
Published on: August 25, 2014
Ethical dimensions of fetal neurology
Frank A Chervenak1, Laurence B McCullough
1New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10065, USA. fac2001@med.cornell.edu
Abstract:
Ethics is an essential dimension of the management of counseling a pregnant woman when a neurologic anomaly is diagnosed. This paper provides an overview of obstetric ethics, with a central focus on the ethical concept of the fetus as a patient. On this basis, the authors analyze the ethical and clinical dimensions of the obstetric management options for pregnancies complicated by a neurologic anomaly. These management options include aggressive management, induced abortion, termination of pregnancy during the third trimester, non-aggressive obstetric management, and cephalocentesis.
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