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Attitudes of obstetric and pediatric health care providers toward resuscitation of infants who are born at the margins of viability.

Abstract：

OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to determine the attitudes of a variety of health care providers toward the recommendations that should be made to parents regarding the resuscitation of infants who are born at the margins of viability. METHODS:A written questionnaire was distributed to the medical and nursing staff at 4 tertiary perinatal centers. For each of 5 weekly gestational age intervals from 22 weeks to 26 weeks, 6 days, the health care providers were asked to describe on a scale from 1 to 5 whether they would strongly discourage through strongly encourage resuscitation. They also were queried regarding their comfort with counseling regarding these issues. The attitudes of various groups of providers were compared across weekly intervals. RESULTS:A total of 204 physicians and 539 nurses completed the survey. The majority would strongly discourage, either discourage or strongly discourage, be neutral or recommend, recommend or strongly recommend, and strongly recommend resuscitation during the 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th weeks of gestation, respectively. Obstetric caregivers were slightly less likely than pediatric caregivers to strongly discourage resuscitation from 22 weeks to 22 weeks, 6 days and 23 weeks to 23 weeks, 6 days. There were no significant differences in the recommendations of obstetricians and pediatricians. Pediatric nurses were more likely to strongly recommend resuscitation from 26 weeks to 26 weeks, 6 days and more likely either to discourage or to strongly discourage resuscitation from 23 weeks to 23 weeks, 6 days and to strongly discourage resuscitation from the 22 weeks to 22 weeks, 6 days than their obstetric counterparts. Obstetric nurses were slightly less likely than obstetricians to strongly recommend resuscitation at 26 weeks to 26 weeks, 6 days and less likely to strongly discourage resuscitation from 22 weeks to 22 weeks, 6 days. CONCLUSIONS:The caregivers' recommendations seem to be based logically on the current literature regarding survival and morbidity that is experienced by infants who are born at the threshold of viability. Although there are minor differences, there was a relatively consistent approach among professional groups.

journal_name

Pediatrics

journal_title

Pediatrics

authors

Lavin JP Jr,Kantak A,Ohlinger J,Kaempf JW,Tomlinson M,Campbell B,Fofah O,Edwards W,Allbright K,Hagen E,Suresh G,Schriefer J

doi

10.1542/peds.2006-0913O

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-11-01 00:00:00

pages

S169-76

eissn

0031-4005

issn

1098-4275

pii

118/Supplement_2/S169

journal_volume

118 Suppl 2

pub_type

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Attitudes of obstetric and pediatric health care providers toward resuscitation of infants who are born at the margins of viability.