From: Ethics knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of tertiary care pediatricians in Ethiopia
Knowledge questions | Proportion of physicians who answered correctly N (%) |
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Regarding the decision to resuscitate at threshold of viability | |
•The decision to resuscitate should alter in the delivery room and in the perinatal period if the neonates condition at birth is much different than was expected prenatally | 42 (71.2) |
•The decision to resuscitate when born at the threshold of viability has to involve consultation with the hospital legal team | 9 (32.2) |
•The decision to resuscitate when born at the threshold of viability should generally involve consultation with colleagues | 17 (28.8) |
Regarding Withholding and withdrawing fluids and nutrition | |
•Withholding and withdrawing of medically provided fluids and nutrition can be done for the same reasons | 29 (49.2) |
•There is fundamental ethical distinction between deciding not to start a life sustaining treatment and deciding to stop a life sustaining treatment that has already been started | 10 (17.0) |
Regarding Life sustaining treatment | |
•Mature minor’s refusal for further life sustaining medical treatment ought to be respected | 16 (27.1) |
•Provide comfort by giving large doses of analgesics and sedatives even if they cause the patient to become obtunded | 24 (40.7) |
•Enteral nutrition can be ethically withdrawn from a patient who is in a vegetative state | 13 (22.0) |
•The physician is ethically justified to provide care even if the parents of 4 month old infant refuse to consent to vaccinate their child | 19 (32.2) |