Facing up to limits: a lesson from the Charlie Gard case

Affiliations

• ¹ Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Ospedale dei Bambini - ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy - alberto.giannini@asst-spedalicivili.it.
• ² Division of Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.
• ³ Center for Rare Diseases, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Santa Maria della Misericordia, Udine, Italy.
• ⁴ Unit of Pediatric Intensive Care, Ospedale Civile Maggiore, Borgo Trento, Verona, Italy.
• ⁵ Unit of Pediatric Intensive Care, Azienda Ospedaliera Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy.
• ⁶ Unit of Intensive Care, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy.
• ⁷ Unit of Pediatric Care, Department of Medical and Surgical Science, "Magna Graecia" University, Catanzaro, Italy.
• ⁸ Unit of Pediatric Intensive Care, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria "A. Meyer", Florence, Italy.
• ⁹ Unit of Pain and Palliative Care, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria "A. Meyer", Florence, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Unit of Rare Metabolic Disease, MBBM Foundation, ATSATS Monza, Monza, Italy.
• ¹¹ Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Padua Hospital, Padua, Italy.
• ¹² Department of Bioethics, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
• ¹³ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.