Providing and Forgoing Resuscitative Therapy for Babies of Very Low Birth Weight

We compared practices at three different NICUs and tried to determine physicians' practices regarding the use or withholding of therapy were consistent from one hosptial to another. practices differed among the three hospitals we studied. There differences in the number of babies who received resuscitative therapy, the components of therapy, and in decisions to withhold resuscitative. In spite of these differences, certain factors emerged as consistent of poor outcome after resuscitative therapy. Babies who had low-minute Apgar scores and babies who required