article_snippet: Saving the lives of premature babies is not always the most kind course of action, doctors have been told.
article_snippet: New guidance says health professionals should carefully consider whether medical intervention is in the baby's best interest, and shouldn't be carried out 'just because the technology is there'.
article_snippet: Doctors should carefully consider whether saving the lives of premature babies is the kindest course of action, new guidance from the Royal College of Paediatrics Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) says .
article_snippet: But the document adds that, equally, children may not have any experience in decision making and it therefore may not be as appropriate for children to be involved.
article_snippet: Babies born at 22 or 23 weeks are now surviving.
article_snippet: But child health experts said that just because the technology is there, the technology does not mean it is necessarily in the child or baby's best interests to use it if baby's best interests circumstances fall under any of the categories set out.
highlights_snippet: Adds it is not always kind to save children and babies with no quality  of life .
  