Numbers
The number of babies born prematurely every year.
What is 15 million?
A child's legal guardians that need to give consent to treat.
What are parents?
What journal stated: "in general, physicians [are] more willing to resuscitate, to accept parents' resuscitation requests, and to refuse parents' non resuscitation requests as gestational age [increases]."
What is Pediatrics: The Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics?
Opinion of other physicians.
What is the decision should be more in the hands of the medical care team?
How ethicists feel about who should make the decisions about preemie resuscitation.
What is many ethicists see the reasoning behind letting the parents of the preemie make an informed decision jointly with the care team?
The ratio of babies born prematurely.
What is 1 in 10?
The general consensus with parents of premature infants.
What is the option to be able to be able to go to as many lengths as they can to save their child?
Opinion of physicians in this case.
What is willing and ready to listen to the wishes of parents?
The reasoning behind the belief of physicians who believe that preemie resuscitation decisions should be left up to the medical care team.
What is parents have their child's best interest at heart and their judgement may be clouded by the emotional turmoil that they are going through and the confusion that all of the new medical terminology and complex process may bring?
Director of the bioethics center at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.
Who is Dr. John Lantos?
The number of babies that die yearly due to complications from premature birth.
What is 1 million?
Mom who gave birth to son Tommy at 22 weeks and 3 days gestation.
Who is Sarah Kil?
How doctors opinions change as a preemie ages.
What is doctors become increasingly open to hearing parents' wishes?
How decisions being made by the medical care team can help.
What is removing conflict of interest and confusion out of the decision making process?
What hospital endorses: "doctors need to ask parents to share fear and hopes, and get to know these families better. After that, providers can tiptoe into that idea that a decision needs to be made together."
What is Children's Mercy Hospital?
Children's National Hospital.
What is the #1 children's hospital in the country in neonatology?
Who said "if my child has problems, then that should be up to me to decide if I can life with that. I'm the parent. But just to let my child pass without even giving him a chance, I feel like that's not fair."
Who is Sarah Kil?
Percent of neonatologists that would not reject a parent's request for neonatal resuscitation.
What is 69%?
Journal that published: "resuscitation and stabilisation of a preterm neonate consists of complex decisions and tasks undertaken by the team."
What is the World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics?
An important factor in a preemie's care
22-24 weeks.
What is the gestational age-range considered super preemie and able to save?
Something many parents agree on.
What is the ability to save their child.
Is there a right for a physician to not treat a baby when he or she thinks the effort is futile?
What is yes?
Physicians who think this way think
What is complex decisions might only be able to be made by those who have in-depth medical knowledge and clear judgement that is not clouded by the deep emotional aspect of having a critically ill newborn?
What parents do for the preemie
What is advocate?