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  1. Deferring Decision-making in the Face of Uncertainty.Dominic J. C. Wilkinson - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):30-33.
    Decisions about providing life-sustaining treatments for extremely premature infants born after preterm labor are complex, contested, and fraught. They are medically uncertain—the outcome of embark...
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  • Optimizing Decision-Making in the Gray Zone at Birth.A. A. E. Verhagen - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):1-3.
    A provocative Target Article in this issue of AJOB proposes a new approach to decision-making for babies born in the “gray-zone” at the margins of viability. Titled “Postponed Withholding: balanced...
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  • Use Certified Patient Decision Aids to Facilitate Shared Decision Making at the Margins of Viability.Thaddeus Mason Pope - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):49-51.
    Syltern and colleagues argue that we should give parents more time to make difficult decisions about life-sustaining treatment at the margins of viability (Syltern et al. 2022). This thesis is appe...
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  • The Path More Easily Reversed: Postponed Withholding at Borderline Viability.Mark R. Mercurio - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):35-37.
    Those who provide medical care for infants born extremely prematurely, at what is often referred to as borderline viability, have long grown accustomed to working with the parent(s) to reach a deci...
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  • Should We Aspire to Be Rational About Letting Babies Die?John D. Lantos - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):51-53.
    It is astoundingly difficult—and may not be desirable—to be rational about decisions to let our babies die. Parents in these situations are caught in a maelstrom of overpowering and often contradic...
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  • Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge.Stephanie Kukora, Naomi Laventhal & Marin Arnolds - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):66-69.
    In “Postponed Withholding: Balanced Decision-Making at the Margins of Viability,” Syltern et al. (2022) propose a novel approach to life-and-death decision making for extremely preterm infants in t...
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  • Informed Nondissent at the Limits of Viability.Noah M. Kon & Alexander A. Kon - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):54-56.
    Being the parents of a premature infant can be extremely stressful. Even when parents know that there is a high chance of premature birth, they are often in shock when their infant arrives too earl...
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  • The Birth of Tragedy? Extremely Premature Births and Shared Decision-Making.Joseph W. Kaempf & Kevin M. Dirksen - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):59-66.
    British philosopher Philippa Foot devoted her life explicating the utility of virtue ethics, aptly summed up as “my attempt to connect good reasoning to goodness.” Shared decision-making is one suc...
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  • Delayed Withholding: Disguising Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Interventions in Extremely Preterm Infants.Annie Janvier & Keith J. Barrington - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):43-46.
    The extremely preterm infant, born before 28 weeks of gestational age, has been the focus of much ethical discussion. These infants have a significant risk of mortality and morbidity, and it is not...
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  • What Is the Ethical Goal of Empowering Parents in Emergent Decision-making about Their Premature Newborn?Lynn Gillam & Trisha M. Prentice - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):38-40.
    The idea of “postponed withholding,” proposed by Syltern et al. (2022), is a provocative one, and like all good provocative ideas, provokes deeper thinking from fresh perspectives. Our attention wa...
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  • Postponed Withholding: Harmful for the Infant and Increasing the Complexity of Decision-Making.Lien De Proost, Eline Bunnik, Angret de Boer & E. J. Verweij - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):56-59.
    Syltern et al. (2022) propose a new approach to decision-making at the limit of viability: by default, intensive care will be initiated for every infant born in “the gray zone” of viability. This w...
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  • Embrace the Gray: How Tackling the Clinical Complexities of the Gray Zone Will Improve Decision-making.Alice Cavolo - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):40-43.
    In their article “Postponed withholding: Balanced decision-making at the margins of viability,” Syltern et al. (2022) present an interesting solution to an important and still unsolved issue in neo...
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  • Shared decision making, prospektive Lebensqualität und das beste Interesse des Kindes: ethische Herausforderungen im Kontext von Behandlungsentscheidungen bei Frühgeborenen an der Grenze der Lebensfähigkeit.Diana Carvalho & Nadia Primc - 2023 - Ethik in der Medizin 35 (4):487-506.
    Zusammenfassung Behandlungsentscheidungen bei Frühgeburten an der Grenze der Lebensfähigkeit stellen eine große Herausforderung dar. In der Neonatologie hat sich das Konzept einer prognostischen Grauzone etabliert, die als ein Grenzbereich verstanden wird, in dem sich aus medizinischer Sicht die Nutzen-Risiko-Abwägung aufgrund der unsicheren Prognose sehr schwierig gestaltet und sich aus ethischer Sicht sowohl eine kurative als auch eine palliative Versorgung prinzipiell rechtfertigen lassen. Innerhalb der Grauzone wird zumeist eine gemeinsame Entscheidungsfindung mit den Eltern in Form eines „shared-decision making“ (SDM) favorisiert, die (...)
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  • Postponed Withholding Does Not Postpone Attachment.Brian S. Carter - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):27-30.
    Counseling parents on the cusp of delivering an extremely preterm infant is performed thousands of times every year in North America, Europe, Japan and in centers situated in other countries around...
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  • Default Withdrawal: Exacerbating Mistrust for Our Most Vulnerable Families.Uchenna Anani, Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, Bree L. Andrews, Mobolaji Famuyide & Dalia Feltman - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (11):46-48.
    We reject the concept of a default option of withdrawal as proposed by Syltern and colleagues, and will outline here potential consequences on parental trust, particularly in historically marginali...
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