End of life care for infants with AIDS: ethical and legal issues

Pediatr Nurs. 1993 Jan-Feb;19(1):79-83, 94.

Abstract

Complex cases involving end-of-life care for infants with AIDS raise a variety of ethical and legal concerns. Health care providers should understand the issues involving proper treatment, including adequate relief of pain at the end of life, and a context for examining the suffering of caregivers.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / nursing*
  • Beneficence
  • Ethics, Nursing*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Pediatric Nursing / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Pediatric Nursing / standards*
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Terminal Care / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Terminal Care / standards*
  • Therapeutic Human Experimentation
  • United States
  • Withholding Treatment