TY - JOUR
T1 - Palliative care in the neonatal intensive care unit
T2 - An Indian experience
AU - Ghoshal, Arunangshu
AU - Damani, Anuja
AU - Muckaden, Mary Ann
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Neonatal Nurses Association
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - The survival of newborn babies born with various problems has improved with the access to life sustaining technologies. Despite this, death in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is an inevitable reality. For babies suffering from life limiting illnesses, the health care team has a duty to alleviate the physical suffering of the baby and to support the family with sensitive communication. Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to relieve the physical, psycho-social, and spiritual suffering of patients and their families. Palliative care provision in the Indian NICU settings is insufficient at present. In this paper we attempt to “build a case” for palliative care in the Indian NICU setting.
AB - The survival of newborn babies born with various problems has improved with the access to life sustaining technologies. Despite this, death in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is an inevitable reality. For babies suffering from life limiting illnesses, the health care team has a duty to alleviate the physical suffering of the baby and to support the family with sensitive communication. Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to relieve the physical, psycho-social, and spiritual suffering of patients and their families. Palliative care provision in the Indian NICU settings is insufficient at present. In this paper we attempt to “build a case” for palliative care in the Indian NICU setting.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jnn.2016.09.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jnn.2016.09.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84996523444
SN - 1355-1841
VL - 23
SP - 75
EP - 81
JO - Journal of Neonatal Nursing
JF - Journal of Neonatal Nursing
IS - 2
ER -