{"id":61,"date":"2010-02-21T20:56:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T19:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=61"},"modified":"2010-02-21T22:36:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T21:36:39","slug":"should-very-prem-babies-be-given-cpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2010\/02\/21\/should-very-prem-babies-be-given-cpr\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Should very prem babies be given CPR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span class=\"ti2\"><span>So it&#8217;s all ethical stuff at the moment. Does the following question reach a point where evidence no longer has a role?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span class=\"ti2\"><span>&#8220;A premature baby born at 24 weeks gestational age is admitted to the neonatal unit having been born apnoeic, floppy, blue and without a heart rate. After cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with adrenaline in the delivery room, a heart rate was noted. Is CPR in these infants inappropriate? What is the chance of survival and risk of disability?<\/span><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; if there is one survivor, does this mean we should undertake CPR? If there are currently no survivors &#8211; because we don&#8217;t often do it, or because we have to think about the past and how it might not have been as good &#8211; should we do it anyway? And does survival with a disability or without one matter anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Can evidence help this question at all?<\/p>\n<p>What opinions exist out there &#8211; about the evidence, rather than just recitation of guideline statements?<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s all ethical stuff at the moment. Does the following question reach a point where evidence no longer has a role? &#8220;A premature baby born at 24 weeks gestational age is admitted to the neonatal unit having been born apnoeic, floppy, blue and without a heart rate. After cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with adrenaline in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2010\/02\/21\/should-very-prem-babies-be-given-cpr\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,104,83,681,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cp","category-discharge","category-nicu","category-perinatal-care","category-therapy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}