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Legal Responsibilities Related to Fetal Deaths

Abstract:

The New Zealand College of Midwives has been made aware that there have been two instances of Registered Midwives signing Medical Certificates of Death in circumstances where a baby has been born alive and then subsequently died. It seems that this has occurred following the lowering of the gestational age (from 28 weeks to 21 weeks) at which a baby is considered viable.

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certifying death, neonatal death, stillbirth