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V. 57 N. 2 (2008)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2008.285
Aspetti etici dell'assistenza intensiva e "provvedimenti di fine vita" in epoca neonatale al limite della vitalità
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The Gröningen Protocol and the Florence Chart have raised in the public opinion issues on the obstetrician-paediatric care debated in scientific and professional centres for a long time, regarding the health care criteria to which extremely preterm infants are - currently - subordinated for week of gestation (22-25) and/or for extremely reduced weight (lower than 1000 gr). The author debates starting from a review - remarkably wide - of the literature, shared among years of intensive neonatology activity both in the light of the "answer style" of the different centres and of the therapeutic progresses in the last years (prenatal use of glycocorticoides; neonatal use of pulmonary surfactant; mechanics of artificial breathing, etc.). He subsequently examines the contents of the Gröningen Protocol and of the Florence Chart, finding some remarkable differences of application but also common features in prejudicial position of the "do not resuscitate" infants under determine temporal limits of development (moreover attenuated from the prediction of exceptional conditions of neonatal vitality in Florence Chart). Once described, in the light of epidemiologic researches, the survivors neurological and pulmonary outcomes and the neonatologists attitudes - in several Countries - he exposes the legal elements regarding the position of the infants in the light of the Declarations of International Law on human person and Italian Constitution, with their applicative norms. Also according to ethical statements - extensively examined -, and refusing all euthanasian formulation, the author is inclined for a line that can favour the resuscitation (primary and secondary) of the extremely premature infant, however, insofar as the limits in which the state of viability at the birth and the evolution of the case in the neonatal intensive care units favour the respect of the principle of proportionality of care. He agrees on the necessity of the constant dialogue with the parents discussing the more opportune therapeutic lines, but acknowledging that the intensive neonatologist is the responsible - according to law - of the therapeutic decisions.
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Aspetti etici dell’assistenza intensiva e "provvedimenti di fine vita" in epoca neonatale al limite della vitalità. (2008). Medicina e Morale, 57(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2008.285
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