Clinical pediatrics
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Clinical pediatrics · Nov 1983
Decisions to withdraw life support in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Neonatal intensive care units may choose to selectively withdraw support in some neonates with severe brain damage. We offer suggestions for criteria for such withdrawal, and a review of 20 cases in which such a decision-making process occurred in our neonatal intensive care unit.
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Clinical pediatrics · Nov 1983
The choking child--a life-threatening emergency. Evaluation of current recommendations.
Recently, there has been much controversy in the pediatric literature concerning the appropriate emergency treatment of the choking child. The current recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics suggest a series of back blows followed by several chest thrusts. ⋯ It is concluded that, although there are inadequacies in all of the existing research, there are no contraindications to the AAP recommendations. It is suggested that our focus, as pediatricians, should be on educating the lay public in the performance of a series of routine maneuvers that may be life-saving.