Ans) It is difficult to make decisions while trying to provide optimal medical care to the infant and supporting the family when delivery occurs at the threshold of viability because outcome at that time is highly unpredictable.
- Such decisions may have lifelong consequences for those involved. An individualized prognostic strategy appears to be the most appropriate approach.
- While keeping the patient’s best interest as the primary objective, the goal is to reach, through a process of effective communication between the parents and physicians, a consensual decision that respects the parents’ wishes and promotes physician beneficence.
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