Groningen Protocol

The groningen protocol is a medical protocol created in september 2004 by eduard verhagen the medical director of the department of pediatrics at the university medical center groningen umcg in groningen the netherlands it contains directives with criteria under which physicians can perform active ending of life on infants child euthanasia without fear of legal prosecution.

Groningen protocol. Given that the national survey indicated that such procedures are performed in 15 to 20 newborns per year the fact that an average of three. In the netherlands meanwhile the so called groningen protocol allows for neonatal euthanasia of severely ill newborns. The so called groningen protocol is a guideline for doctors at the academic hospital in groningen to help them understand what procedures to take when performing euthanasia on infants. The groningen protocol is a medical protocol created in september 2004 by eduard verhagen the medical director of the department of pediatrics at the university medical center groningen umcg in groningen the netherlands it contains directives with criteria under which physicians can perform active ending of life on infants child euthanasia without fear of legal prosecution.

The groningen protocol specifies criteria for the potential termination of life in severely ill newborns in extremis with untreatable and unrelievable conditions. The groningen protocol is a text created in september 2004 by eduard verhagen the medical director of the department of pediatrics at the university medical center groningen umcg in groningen the netherlands it contains directives with criteria under which physicians can perform active ending of life on infants child euthanasia without fear of legal prosecution. Verhagen and sauer reported in the march 10 2005 issue of the new england journal of medicine nejm about the groningen protocol. During the past few months the international press has.

The impetus for this protocol was not that physicians were being actively prosecuted but that the authors felt that physicians failed to. Officers we developed a protocol known as the groningen protocol for cases in which a decision is made to actively end the life of a newborn. This algorithm is used to avoid prosecution in the netherlands when performing euthanasia on infants. Despite the regulation s development through extensive professional consultation.

The groningen protocol for euthanasia in newborns. Killing such children is permitted up to the age of one in the.