Perinatal Palliative Care
A guide to supporting families when a baby is at high risk of dying before or shortly after birth
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- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
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1 Introduction to perinatal palliative care
- Contents
- Objectives
- Understanding perinatal palliative care
- The importance of perinatal palliative care
- When to provide perinatal palliative care
- The continuum of perinatal palliative care
- Different points at which perinatal palliative care can be provided
- Providing palliative care alongside other treatments
- Case studies
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2 Providing palliative care in the antenatal period
- Contents
- Objectives
- Providing care during the antenatal period
- Management if the decision for a termination is made
- Management if the decision to continue with the pregnancy is made
- Holistic perinatal palliative care planning
- Management if there is an unexpected early death of the fetus
- Case studies
- 3 Care and support during labour and immediately after delivery
- 4 Care and support during the neonatal period
- 5 Key considerations in perinatal palliative care
- Appendix A: Perinatal palliative care birth plan checklist
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