Crucial Decisions at the Beginning of Life: Parents' Experiences of Treatment Withdrawl from Infants

ISBN-13: 9781857754797 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 462 str.

Hazel E. McHaffie;McHaffie; Hazel McHaffie

Opis

This is a unique and valuable work, which traces the experiences of over 100 parents who have lived through the loss of a baby. It follows them from pregnancy through to13 months after the death. Based on rigorous scientific research it describes their feelings when crucial decisions are made on behalf of their child, and examines their capacity to take responsibility for such decisions. By analysing those factors which help or hinder them, the book provides guidance to health professionals on how the services they offer may be improved. Neonatologists, paediatricians, midwives and neonatal nurses will find it an essential and enlightening read. Primary care clinicians, intensive care staff and hospital chaplains will discover insights which help them to support a wider group of patients and relatives.

Spis treści

Introduction. Parental Grief. The study method. The respondent families. Pregnancy and birth (pregnancy up to the onset of labour - The labour and delivery. When things went wrong. Decision making. Management of dying. The Funeral. Follow up. The effect on death on the family. Support in bereavement. Parents' opinions. Some concluding thoughts. Recommendation. Appendix One: Data on non-respondent families. References.

O autorze

McHaffie, Hazel