Question

When a newborn has a high risk of mortality and there is a significant burden of morbidity among survivors, what should be included in your discussion with the parents concerning options for resuscitation?

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: The option of providing comfort care can be considered.

resuscitation refers the process of fixing the psychological damage that happen to a  certain individual. In order to do this, we need to minimalize the amount of anxiety that the patient experience. Which is why providing comfort can is considered to be an eligible option to help the treatment.

Answer 2

The option of only providing comfort care has to be discussed with the parents. Providing only comfort care means that the care provided are meant to relieve pain for the baby until it dies. It means the nurses will try as much as possible to reduce the pain the child will suffer when dying without making any effort to resuscitate it.