ArticleMedicine, health care, and philosophy2019
Professional ethics: the case of neonatology.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Decision-making at the limit of viability: the Austrian neonatal choice context.BMC pediatrics · 2019Pooled it
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- Relevance of clinical ethics support services in specialized outpatient palliative care teams and inpatient hospices.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- A Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine.The Journal of medicine and philosophy · 2025Review
- Utilization and Evaluation of Ethics Consultation Services in Neonatal Intensive Care.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Neonatal End-of-Life Decision Making: The Possible Behavior of Greek Physicians, Midwives, and Nurses in Clinical Scenarios.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Neonatology in Austria: ethics to improve practice.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2020Article
- Moral Distress in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: What Is It, Why It Happens, and How We Can Address It.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Review
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Abstract
Neonatal professionals encounter many ethical challenges especially when it comes to interventions at the limit of viability (weeks 22-25 of gestation). At times, these challenges make the moral dilemmas in neonatology tragic and they require a particular set of intellectual and moral virtues. Intellectual virtues of episteme and phronesis, together with moral virtues of courage, compassion, keeping fidelity to trust, and integrity were highlighted as key virtues of the neonatal professional. Recognition of the role of ethics requires a recognition that answering the obvious question (what shall we do?) does not always suffice. Acknowledging the tragic question (is any of the alternatives open to us free from serious moral wrongdoing) and recognizing the ethical dilemmas, where the lines between right and wrong are blurred, leads to actions taken towards establishing ethics frameworks to support decision-making. In neonatology units, such organizational support can help in allowing the team members to recognize the ethical dilemmas, avoid moral distress, and improve team cohesion and the quality of care provided. Only when the organizational structure allows ethical dilemmas to be recognized, adequate decisions can be made.
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