Study has found that babies born before 24 weeks are spending longer periods in the intensive care because doctors are undergoing more intensive treatment to keep them alive. Only 20% of these babies survive of such babies but most of the time has a risc like hanidcaps. In the study they looked at 230 babies born in the week 22-23 which was published in Achieve of Disease in Childhood. In 15 years the average survival time of these babies in 1993 was 11 hours and in 2007 four days. But even with more active intervention for the last five years, the babies average survival time has not increased.
Dr. Nicholas Embleton who led the researches says: "We know anocdatley that more parents are asking for resusitation and more doctors are offering it. We are not making a value of judgement about this, and for many this may be the right to do- even if it only brings an extra three day of live".
Good or Bad?
What I have learned from this news is ,that even when doctors do their utmost to keep these babies alive the results is not always postitive. Doctors, and even parents sometimes ask for it, use the resusitation because they want one more living babies on earth, so a good intention. But is this a good option? Yes, if doctors make them exacly live and no, if they is not. According to the study, most of these babies can be left with a handicap which means they have to live with it until they die. Parents should also be careful with lifestyle and eating habits because this is extreemly important when they want to have a healty baby. And doctors should give useful advise so that these kind of issues, early births, will decrease.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8635955.stm
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This is an interesting issue. Will the UK hospitals change their policy to prevent this from happening?
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