Publication details
Rozhodování o péči o novorozence na hranicích viability
| Title in English | Decision making about care for the neonates born at the edge of viability |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Časopis zdravotnického práva a bioetiky |
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| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | viability; preterm birth; preterm infant; ethics; saving life; perinatal care; intensive care; decision; uncertainty; best interest |
| Description | The paper departs from viability, analysing viability as semantic and medical concept and characterizing consequences that clinical status of an extremely preterm newborn (neonate born at the edge of viability) has for ethical considerations and decisions about the proper medical care – when not only survival of the extremely preterm neonate but also diverse level of medical harm to the infant are at the stake. Coming from medical uncertainty, typical for the extremely premature newborns, the paper focuses on moral uncertainty caused my medical uncertainty. Finally the paper brings some modi procedendi for ethical dilemmas of saving infants born at the edge of viability. |