Neonatal intensive care
Portable Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
... need intensive medical attention are often admitted into a special area of the hospital called the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ...health care professionals to provide specialized ...
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Characterization of the Triage Process in Neonatal Intensive Care
... Conclusions. Neonatal triage is a low-acuity but time- intensive process that contributes significantly to total resource use by newborns because of the large numbers of infants ...with neonatal ...
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Intraocular infections in the neonatal intensive care unit
... Neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with a diagnosis of septicemia or fungemia are routinely screened to rule out ocular involvement. Risk factors of developing endophthalmitis in ...
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Explanatory models in neonatal intensive care: a tutorial
... The interactive class on complex clinical situations in neonatal intensive care is aimed at pediatric residents and interns. In this tutorial, we focus on explaining the underlying physiology and ...
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Phlebotomy Overdraw in the Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery
... 2 neonatal special care units were weighed, and selected clinical data were ...(ie, neonatal intensive care unit [NICU] and intermediate intensive care unit); the infant’s ...
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Sibling Visiting in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
... These data suggest that sibling visiting to a neonatal intensive care unit is not likely to be harmful and might be beneficial to the siblings and their families.. Pediatrics 1983;71:835[r] ...
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Antimicrobial therapy in neonatal intensive care unit
... of neonatal mortality accounting for more than one million neonatal deaths worldwide every ...in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and in industrialized countries about 1% of ...
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RN Staffing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
... other neonatal outcome measures are either equivocal or do not ...in intensive care units and for surgical patients (Kane, Shamliyan, Mueller, Duval, & Wilt, ...Although neonatal patients ...
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The Intensive Care Lifeboat: a survey of lay attitudes to rationing dilemmas in neonatal intensive care
... of intensive care for critically ill newborns have traditionally focused on the best interests of infants ...within neonatal intensive care units (NICU) [5], meaning that sometimes ...
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Rapid Challenges: Ethics and Genomic Neonatal Intensive Care
... Infant C was extremely premature (26 weeks’ gestation) with severe intrauterine growth restriction (birth weight 502 g). She had multiple complications during a prolonged neonatal intensive care ...
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Bacterial Colonization of Toys in Neonatal Intensive Care Cots
... 3, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Royal Women’s Hospital, in Melbourne, all the toys of all infants were swabbed and cultured weekly for 4 ...
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A Controlled Trial of Nurse Practitioners in Neonatal Intensive Care
... NICU, neonatal intensive care unit; CNS/NP, clinical nurse specialist/neonatal practitioner; NNP, neonatal nurse practitioner; NIPS, Neonatal Index of Parent Satisfaction; MIDI, Minnesot[r] ...
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Nurses reactions to alarms in a neonatal intensive care unit
... Abstract Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), like other intensive care units, are intended to provide immediate responses to any change in the patient’s ...
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Moral Reflections on Neonatal Intensive Care
... expenditures. Neonatal intensive care is one of the most cost-effective tertiary care interventions in all of ...adult intensive care, coronary bypass surgery, solid organ ...
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Changes in the Incidence of Candidiasis in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
... 3. Benjamin DK Jr, Stoll BJ, Gantz MG, et al; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. Neonatal candi- diasis: epidemiology, risk factors, ...
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Preparing for Discharge From the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
... from our NICU through stepwise changes to our discharge preparation process. The assessment of discharge readiness has been described in detail elsewhere. 10,11 Briefly, on the discharge day, families rated their overall ...
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Changes in the Incidence of Candidiasis in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
... 3. Benjamin DK Jr, Stoll BJ, Gantz MG, et al; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. Neonatal candi- diasis: epidemiology, risk factors, ...
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Potential Sources of Bisphenol A in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
... a feeding and after the feeding at the time of the next scheduled cluster of care (up to 3 – 4 hours). Wet cotton balls were placed in a plastic specimen cup and, in general, were stored for , 2 hours at 4°C until ...
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Streptococcus faecium outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit
... In addition, the two isolates from hands of personnel and one isolate from a prevalence survey were identical to the strains isolated from the infected patients, but none of the other ei[r] ...
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Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology: A Physiologic Severity Index for Neonatal Intensive Care
... Within each birth weight category, increasing Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology (SNAP) is associated with significant increases in mortality rates (P < .001 trend) for all compariso[r] ...
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