The perinatal hospice is not a place. It is a concept of holistic care of family when the parents learn that their unborn child will live shorter life than themselves. Those parents are mostly young, healthy couples with no disease. After the preliminary diagnosis, their world collapses, and they look for help. Before all, they want to validate the diagnosis, and they need accurate medical information. Since cardiac anomalies are the most frequent ones, they get to our Ultrasound Clinic Agatowa which is the bigger reference center of prenatal cardiac diagnostics in Poland. The physician who performs fetal echocardiography explains to the parents the medical issues, and if needed, proposes additional tests. Each consultation is conducted in presence of one of our hospice psychologists.
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