["Conservative" treatment in the multiply handicapped child]. / Traitements "conservatoires" chez l'enfant polyhandicapé.

ABSTRACT

The increasingly medicalized strategies of nursing for the multihandicapped children point out the problem of limits and constraints of these processing. First, a review of methods of treatments for the evolutionary complications is done. Secondly, the consequences of the choice of these therapeutics are discussed. The ethical consequences of the various processing are analysed by developing the motivations of the caring teams, the concepts of quality of life and its dualism with dignity of life.