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The tremendous advances in perinatal and neonatal care that were made beginning in the 1970s and through the 1990s have contributed to the survival of infants as immature as 22 to 25 weeks of gestational age.^1,2,3,4 According to current guidelines developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics for the use of neonatologists when counseling parents,⁵ it is considered appropriate not to initiate resuscitation for infants younger than 23 weeks of gestational age or those whose birth weight is less than 400 g, given the dismal prognosis for these infants. The involvement of the family is considered critical to the decision-making . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, R.I. (B.R.V.); and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (M.A.).

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