RT Journal
A1 Benini F, Ferrante A, Po' C, Jankovic M
T1 THe development of practical guidelines for the care of deceased children is perhaps a utopia?
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2012
FD March 1
VO 166
IS 3
SP 291
OP 292
DO 10.1001/archpediatrics.2011.889
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2011.889
AB 
For parents, when a child dies, the concluding and irreversible separation is a devastating experience. Studies demonstrate how the care of the deceased child immediately after death is extremely important and how it can impact the families' capacity to cope with bereavement.1- 4 Commonly experienced wishes and needs for parents after their child's death are to be with their child; clean, arrange, and dress the body; accompany the child to the mortuary and then continue to see the child; and have privacy, adequate time, and space.5- 6 Currently, no official guidelines on the procedures to follow during this delicate phase are available.