Miracle baby grows up / produced by Richard Grange.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Grange, Richard., Producer.

British Broadcasting Corporation., Production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Panorama

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children with disabilities--Medical care--Moral and ethical aspects.

Children with disabilities.

Neonatal intensive care--Moral and ethical aspects.

Neonatal intensive care.

Newborn infants--Medical care--Moral and ethical aspects.

Newborn infants.

Premature infants--Development.

Premature infants.

Quality of life.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (58 min.)

Place of Publication:

London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 2004.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

Premature babies--the so-called miracle babies--are babies born half-way through pregnancy. In the largest study ever conducted in the world the EPICure (Extremely Preterm Infants) study looked at all such babies born in Great Britain and Ireland in 1995. Of 4004 babies born, 1211 were born alive. 811 received intensive care and of these 314 survived to go home (1/3 of these on oxygen). The programme looks at what happened to these survivors as they grew up, and their quality of life as a result of being kept alive by medical technology whose long-term effects were unknown. At age 6 of the 241 survivors examined 40% had moderate to severe disabilities as opposed to 2% in a comparable school community. In the light of the results was the medical intervention justified and at what cost and to whom?

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed July 3, 2014).

OCLC:

885257359