Tiny Babies, Large Questions: Ethical Issues in Prenatal and Neonatal Care

Seattle Children's annual pediatric bioethics conference was held last Friday and Saturday.  

Happily, as with prior years, the complete webcast is available for free.  Perhaps most relevant to this blog is Friday morning's program:

• Whatever Happened to Baby Doe? The Transformation from Undertreatment to Overtreatment, Norman Fost, MD, MPH


• Neonatal Resuscitation: What Makes the Gray Zone Gray?, John Lantos, MD


• Whose Best Interest? Resuscitation Decisions for Neonates,Annie Janvier, MD, PhD


• When the Beginning Is the End: Ethical and Practical Issues in Neonatal End-of-Life Care, Marcia Levetown, MD


• Panel and questions: Norman Fost, John Lantos, Marcia Levetown, Annie Janvier, David Loren, Mark Mercurio