Guideline
Swiss Recommendations for the Perinatal Care of Extremely Low Gestational Age Neonates.
Swiss Society of Neonatology2026Full text
- Comfort and nursing care
- Communicating with families
- Delivery room and stabilisation
- Ethics
- Families and professional practice
- Family-integrated care
- Medical
- Nursing
- Palliative and end-of-life care
- Preterm stabilisation
Summary
Revised Swiss interdisciplinary recommendations (updating the 2011 version) for the perinatal care of extremely low gestational age neonates. They emphasise individualised risk assessment incorporating modifiable and non-modifiable factors beyond gestational age, and shared decision-making with parents. Infants below 23 0/7 weeks should receive comfort-focused palliative care, while care at or above 23 0/7 weeks follows one of three trajectories: comfort-focused, survival-focused, or a grey zone where parental preferences guide the choice.
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