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Title: F8 - When the Fetus Is Alive but the Mother Is Dead: Somatic Support of the Brain Dead Woman
Disciplines: Professional Issues (PI), Newborn (NB), Childbearing (CB), Advanced Practice (AP)
Learning Objectives:
- Review history of keeping brain dead pregnant women on life support.
- Review ethical principles determining the benefit and burden of keeping the woman on life support to grow the fetus.
- Review optimal team work for nurses working in adult ICU, obstetrics, the operating room, and neonatal intensive care.
Advances in technology have allowed brain dead patients to be kept on life support for purposes of organ donation. This presentation examines keeping a pregnant brain dead woman alive to grow the fetus to viability.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010: 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Venetian
Moderator:
Rebecca L. Cypher, MSN, PNNP
Presenting Authors:
Anita Catlin, DNSc, FNP, FAAN
and
Cindy Cochrane, MS, RNC-OB, WHNP-BC
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