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Table 2 Conditions for Perinatal Palliative Care, adapted from BAPM (2010) [4]

Category 1	Ante- or postnatal diagnosis of a condition not compatible with long-term survival, e.g. anencephaly.
Category 2	Ante- or postnatal diagnosis of a condition that carries a high risk of significant morbidity or death, e.g. severe renal disease with oligo-/anhydramnion, severe congenital heart disease.
Category 3	Babies born at the margins of viability, where intensive care has been deemed inappropriate, e.g. extremely preterm infants with a gestational age of 22 0/7 to 23 6/7.
Category 4	Postnatal conditions with a high risk of severe impairment of quality of life and when the baby is receiving life support, e.g. severe hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
Category 5	Postnatal conditions which result in the baby experiencing “unbearable suffering” in the course of their illness or treatment incompatible with survival, e.g. severe necrotizing enterocolitis with extended bowel necrosis.

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