Critical issues debates: intervention for infants with fatal heart disease, xenografting, and brain death criteria for anencephalic infants. Debate I. Resolved: a fetus or infant diagnosed with fatal heart disease should be referred for transplantation or palliative surgery.
D000025:Abortion, Eugenic; D020811:Biomedical Technology; D002648:Child; D009358:Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003376:Counseling; D003657:Decision Making; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D005333:Fetus; D013502:General Surgery; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006321:Heart; D006331:Heart Diseases; D006805:Human Experimentation; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009026:Mortality; D016377:Organ Transplantation; D010290:Parents; D018579:Patient Selection; D010820:Physicians; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D011379:Prognosis; D011640:Public Policy; D011788:Quality of Life; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012935:Social Justice; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D026712:Value of Life; D028761:Withholding Treatment
Death and Euthanasia; Genetics and Reproduction; Health Care and Public Health