title: Ethical dilemmas in pediatric critical care.
abstract: Advances in the area of pediatric medicine during the past few years have presented ethical dilemmas for the physician to consider. This article discusses the ethical principles upon which clinical reasoning and judgments can be made.
authors.affiliation: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Todres
mesh_terms: D026686:Beneficence; D002648:Child; D003422:Critical Care; D034723:Double Effect Principle; D004989:Ethics; D017041:Ethics Committees; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D035082:Federal Government; D005440:Fluid Therapy; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D033182:Intention; D008020:Life Support Care; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D033282:Parental Consent; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010372:Pediatrics; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D016414:Resuscitation Orders; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D028761:Withholding Treatment