[Clinical observation of newborns with infection risk: A safe practice].

Introduction: Early-onset neonatal sepsis refers to an infection which starts during the first 72hours of birth, and can lead to significant morbidity and mortality. Scientific evidence shows that infected infants present with symptoms during the first hours after delivery. There has been a significant decrease in this condition with the implementation of guidelines for its prevention.

[Severe diseases with prenatal diagnosis].

The aim of this article is to present the published information until this moment about the survival, long term effects and quality of life of the diseases named by the Bioethics Committee of the Spanish Society of Gynaecologist and Obstetricians (SEGO) as extremely severe and untreatable diseases, subsidiary of a Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy after the 22 weeks of gestational age, according to the Organic Law 2/2010 of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy. Health professionals must know the medical aspects, the therapeutics advances and the outcomes of these diseases, and it is a high standard of professional ethics to transmit this information to the progenitors.