Unlabelled: Unplanned extubation (UE) is a common adverse event in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). At our level IV NICU, we initiated a quality improvement project in 2012 to reduce UE rates from 7.47 to below 100 intubated days.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We discuss the ethical decision points in a case report that describes a novel COL1A1 mutation associated to Osteogenesis Imperfecta type II, but with a non-lethal outcome.
Case: A 33-year-old female underwent a 21-week ultrasound that revealed short bowed femurs and humeri with old fractures and bowed tibias and fibulas. Amniotic fluid testing revealed a novel COL1A1 mutation (c.