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Premature babies |
21 June 2005 |
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 Intensive care provision for the extremely premature
Should there be a limit on the age at which extremely premature babies are offered intensive care?
Members of the public are currently being consulted on their views and current research shows that there is a high rate of varying disabilities amongst children born between 23 and 25 weeks.
Would an age limit be of help to doctors and parents faced with a suffering baby with minimal chances of survival or should every premature baby be treated on an individual basis?
We hear from the Netherlands where the policy is not to offer treatment to a baby born before 25 weeks and to a mother of a daughter born at 25 weeks in the UK.
Guests:
Baroness Mary Warnock, Professor Kate Costeloe, Professor for Paediatrics at Barts and the London Medical School, and Bonnie Green of BLISS, the premature baby charity.
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