Sentence examples for thresholds of viability from inspiring English sources

There is a fairly extensive discussion in middle- and high-income countries surrounding the ethical significance of thresholds of viability and the definitions of "prematurity" and "extreme prematurity" [ 4, 5].

To assess attitudes of neonatologists toward parental wishes in delivery room resuscitation decisions at the threshold of viability.

Conclusion: These data suggest an increasingly aggressive approach to deliveries at the threshold of viability, beginning at 23 weeks of gestation.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess whether the treatment of deliveries at the traditional threshold of viability has become more interventional since the publication of higher survival rates.

To describe survival rates at discharge in liveborn infants with birth-weight under 1000 g by birth-weight and gestational age categories in a third level Spanish hospital in order to improve health care planning and parental counselling about the threshold of viability.

In Maine, he failed to even meet the threshold of viability (which was 10percentt or about 1,800 votes), meaning he wasn't able to secure a single delegate there.

Babies born at the threshold of viability create a wide range of polarised opinions regarding decisions about their care and management.

To assess the care given to the babies born at the threshold of viability over the last 20 years using regional and national data.

Gestational age and birth weight-specific stillbirth:live birth ratios (stillbirths per 100 live births) were also calculated to assess any proclivity towards labeling live births as stillbirths near the threshold of viability.

Such shared decisions traverse the boundaries of informed consent for investigative research [ 37- 39], management of anticipated preterm birth at the threshold of viability [ 40, 41], treatment of life-threatening conditions [ 42, 43] inclusive of numerous practices and interventions in neonatal intensive care [ 44, 45].

Guided by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Fetus and Newborn statement concerning care at the threshold of viability [ 35], we continue to aggressively resuscitate many infants born at 23 weeks gestation, but we recognize the paucity of data about the long term outcome of such infants.