Summary Of Ethical Issues In Neonatal Care

With the improvement of the medicine and its medical system, the concept of ethics has become significantly acknowledged and have been greatly emphasized. Despite the increase in better, advanced medical quality, still many children every year in United States are born with medical conditions that prohibits them to live with normal, daily function which ultimately puts them into a situation whether being put under intensive care to prolong life or accepting the reality of upcoming death. Many caregivers question ethics when it comes to prolonging the life of the death of ill neonates wondering for whom they are doing this for and whether it is actually something the neonate and the family members would desire.

Ethics are defined as moral principle

Carter, MD explores the ethical dilemmas that can arise in work setting around the care of ill neonates. The author brings topics that may put many healthcare professionals in a challenge. According to Brian S. Carter, he mentions that some of the ethical questions that may arise: “Who decides whether an infant receives care? How are these decisions made? What outcomes of neonatal intensive care are too burdensome?” (Carter, “Ethical Issue in Neonatal Care.”). Despite the ethical dilemmas the caregivers may face, in the end, the goal of the care would evolve around the patient, families, and the community. Due to no definite “right or wrong” answers given to these ethical questions, this might bring frustration on many people who are involved in providing the care for the patient. Let’s say the parents of the ill neonate holds the full consent of making decision-which usually is true- and the parents decide to begin the intensive treatment. This will bring a great challenge among the medical caregivers questioning what are the chances that the patient will get any better from the current state, and if the chance of survival or the recovery is extremely low, would processing with the treatment be doing right thing for the baby. Despite how difficult it is to answer these questions, the medical caregivers need to explore and try to answer them to avoid failing to identify the importance of recognizing the value of lives and dignity, and as well as to avoid abandoning the responsibility of those values to provide right care for the patient and the