Infants with neurological injury and their families face unique challenges in the neonatal intensive care unit. As specialty palliative care support becomes increasingly available, we must ...

We hypothesized that the implementation of a neonatal palliative care initiative will result in improved markers of end-of-life care. Prior to the development of this intervention, a consultative ...

Focusing on life, and not entirely on death, is a major objective of neonatal palliative care. In addition to addressing any pain or discomfort the newborn may experience, the palliative care team ...

Palliative care has come a long way in recent years. Nowhere is this more true than in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), where the very idea of death is incongruent with the reason for the ...

A project described as the first-of-its-kind and that has transformed neonatal palliative care in London is to be rolled out across the UK, according to those behind the nurse-led initiative. They ...

Future considerations for applying neonatal palliative care include its integration into fetal diagnostic management, the developing era of genomic medicine, and expanding research into palliative ...

Using a Likert scale, the Neonatal Palliative Care Attitude Scale (NiPCAS) survey examines attitudes toward a number of key barriers and also includes demographic questions. Results. The ...

A project described as the first-of-its-kind and that has transformed neonatal palliative care in London is to be rolled out across the UK, according to those behind the nurse-led initiative. They ...

But nowhere is this more crucial than in neonatal wards and children’s hospices, when a very young baby needs palliative care. A baby can be just months, even days or hours old when parents are ...

Palliative care specialists contribute to the care of ... the availability of genetic screening and highly trained and equipped neonatal specialists armed with ever-advancing technology mean ...

Under the regulations, neonatal care means medical care received in a hospital under the direction of a consultant. It includes ongoing monitoring by healthcare professionals arranged by the hospital ...