Home Death and Hospital Follow-up of the Dying Infant

Henry H. Mangurten

doi:10.1055/s-2007-999509

American Journal of Perinatology, Table of Contents

Am J Perinatol 1990; 7(4): 302-306
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-999509

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Home Death and Hospital Follow-up of the Dying Infant

Henry H. Mangurten

Director of Neonatology, Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois, and Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Illinois Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

Abstract

ABSTRACT

As technology and medical care have improved, increasing numbers of critically ill neonatal patients are surviving the immediate neonatal period. The hectic environment of the neonatal intensive care unit often makes it difficult for personnel to attend adequately to the needs of the dying infant and his family. Accordingly, the option of home death for such infants has been offered in our neonatal intensive care unit. Experience is described for six infants who were managed in this manner.

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