Theme: Shared Decision-Making

Perinatal palliative care: “Parents can hold that [uncertainty] space better than we clinicians do.”

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Perinatal palliative care: “Parents can hold that [uncertainty] space better than we clinicians do.”

perinatal palliative care and neonatologist, Dr. Natasha Henner shares what she has observed in years of practice. Parents can hold uncertainty better than clinicians can. Clinicians need training to do that. People want to work towards a goal … And what if the goal is just to have the baby live, even if only for a short while in the NICU. It’s uncertainty in the goals as well as in the outcomes. And this requires training – looking at a specific case.