MANEJO DA TERMINALIDADE DA VIDA NEONATAL E ACOMPANHAMENTO DO LUTO – REVISÃO DE LITERATURA

ABSTRACT We will see that providing care with empathy and centered on the patient and the patient’s family in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is very difficult for professionals. The healthcare team needs to balance the clinical needs of the newborn with the demands of parents and family. We know that parents are deeply influenced by the compassion and treatment they receive from health professionals during the terminal process of their beloved children’s lives. Although the death of a newborn is a devastating event, the knowledge and skills of the multidisciplinary team can substantially influence the parents’ ability to effectively cope with the loss. Despite advances in neonatal care in recent years, more children die in the perinatal and neonatal periods than in any other period of childhood. In the USA, the majority of newborn deaths are due to congenital malformations and disorders related to shortened gestation and low birth weight. Keywords: Terminality of neonatal life, monitoring of neonatal grief, end of neonatal life.