[Question raised by the limits of viability in extremely preterm infants].
Recent advances in perinatology allow to take care routinely of extremely preterm babies. Medical problems as well as ethical questions raised by initiation and withdrawal of intensive care of these infants are discussed here. Successively are considered what population is concerned by the so-called limits of viability, the long-term results of the medical interventions and the ethical questions resulting of them.
Jarreau
Pierre-Henri
PH
Service de médecine néonatale de Port-Royal, centre hospitalier Cochin-Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, 75014 Paris. pierre-henri.jarreau@cch.aphp.fr
D003657:Decision Making; D005602:France; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D019102:Infant, Very Low Birth Weight; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000941:ethics*; D010500:Perinatology / Q000941:ethics* / Q000379:methods; D011379:Prognosis; D028761:Withholding Treatment / Q000941:ethics*