The revised and updated second edition covers practical approaches to caring for healthy and high-risk infants. Available for purchase at https://www.aap.org/neonatalogy-for-primary-care-2nd-edition-paperback/
Chapter 44: Support for Families Whose Infant Is Sick or Dying
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Published:January 2020
Joseph A. Vitterito, II, MD, Katie R. Forman, DO, FAAP, Alecia Thompson-Branch, MD, FAAP, Deborah E. Campbell, MD, FAAP, 2020. "Support for Families Whose Infant Is Sick or Dying", Neonatology for Primary Care, Deborah E. Campbell, MD, FAAP
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The greatest risk of dying, for the pediatric patient, is within the perinatal period. For expectant families, birth is usually a moment filled with surprise, joy, and some trepidation about the responsibility of caring for a new life. With the birth of a preterm or sick infant, emotions become fraught with shock, sadness, and possibly anger and grief. When any newborn requires more than routine well-infant care, the family also requires care beyond congratulatory support and anticipatory guidance.
Infants requiring specialized newborn care span the spectrum of neonates born preterm, to babies with respiratory distress, birth asphyxia, sepsis, hypoglycemia, and...
