Premature Newborns
Original Article Ventilator-associated pneumonia in premature newborns admitted to the intensive care unit
... 18]. One of the prophylactic measures is to maintain the blood gas on the normal levels by using a relatively low pressure of MV. Additionally, a report suggested that MV may cause additional strain and stress on the ...
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Cisapride: A Survey of the Frequency of Use and Adverse Events in Premature Newborns
... of premature patients treated with cisapride per year, and the frequency and nature of arrhythmias or other adverse events associated with cisa- pride ...000 premature newborns of <36 weeks’ ...
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Clinical and Economic Effects of iNO in Premature Newborns With Respiratory Failure at 1 Year
... in premature newborns with respiratory failure are ...METHODS: Premature newborns (gestational age ⱕ 34 w, birth weight 500 –1250 g) with respiratory failure randomly received 5 ppm iNO or ...
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Poor Circulation, Early Brain Injury, and the Potential Role of Red Cell Transfusion in Premature Newborns
... very premature newborns, (2) discuss the con- cept of stagnant hypoxia and its relation to early brain injury, and (3) discuss the potential role of adult packed red cell transfusion as an acute ...
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Essential Fatty Acid Status in Premature Newborns Fed by Nasoduodenal Technique
... Essential Fatty Acid Status in Premature Newborns Fed by Nasoduodenal Technique. Services[r] ...
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Olfactory Stimulation Prevents Apnea in Premature Newborns
... Measurements were conducted on 14 premature newborns (7 females) in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University Hospital at Strasbourg (Alsace, France). All the infants had recur- rent central apneas ...
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Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus With Oral Ibuprofen Suspension in Premature Newborns: A Pilot Study
... ABSTRACT. Objective. Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), a common finding among premature infants, is conventionally treated by intravenous indomethacin. In- travenous ibuprofen was recently shown to be as effec- tive ...
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Intravenous glucose suppresses glucose production but not proteolysis in extremely premature newborns
... To ascertain whether the inability to suppress glucose production and increase glucose utilization in response to glucose infusion is an inherent characteristic of immature individuals, we determined glucose rate of ...
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Quantitative Fiber Tracking Analysis of the Optic Radiation Correlated with Visual Performance in Premature Newborns
... This study shows that quantitative DTI fiber tracking can link the microstructure of an unmyelinated white matter tract to function and behavior during a critical phase of brain devel- opment in preterm neonates. Visual ...
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Whole-Body Cesium 137 Activity up to 4 Years After the Chernobyl Reactor Accident in Premature Newborns, Newborns, Infants, and Children
... Cesium 137 activity was measured after the Chernobyl incident in a whole-body radiation counter (4-ir-scintillation counter) in 85 premature and mature newborns (group 1), 174 infants an[r] ...
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Preductal and Postductal Transcutaneous Oxygen Tension Measurements in Premature Newborns With Hyaline Membrane Disease
... 100 DUCTAL SHUNT AND PRETERM INFANTS investigators did not study very low birth weight. infants, however, a group of patients known to be[r] ...
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ABSENCE OF TRANSIENT SUPPRESSION OF SEX CHROMATIN IN FEMALE PREMATURE NEWBORNS
... The frequency of sex chromatin-posi- tive nuclei during the first 7 days of life was deter- mined in oral mucosa smears stained with lactic acetic orcein in three groups of newborn femal[r] ...
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Intubating extremely premature newborns: a randomised crossover simulation study
... Using a prestudy survey, participants indicated their professional role, years of clinical neonatology expe- rience, self-perceived confidence in laryngoscopy skill (5-point rating scale) and preferred laryngoscope blade ...
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How Intensive Is Newborn Intensive Care? An Environmental Analysis
... Although the effects of environmental factors in special cane units on the medical and developmental status of premature newborns have not yet been firmly established, there is an emergi[r] ...
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Kernicterus in Preterm Newborns: Past, Present, and Future
... They noted six cases of kernicterus in small premature newborns without hemolytic disease, four of six with serum bilirubin concentrations of less than 20 mg/dL.. (17.1 to 18.8 mg/dL).[r] ...
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Antenatal Steroids Are Associated With Less Need for Blood Pressure Support in Extremely Premature Infants
... During the first 48 hours of life, premature newborns exposed to antenatal corticosteroids were less likely to receive dopamine for blood pressure support (47% vs 67%), and if they did, [r] ...
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Why Do Neonatologists in Scandinavian Countries and the Netherlands Make Life-and-death Decisions So Different?
... for premature newborns in both regions; 3 characteristics of neonatal care in the Netherlands stood out when compared with those in the Scandinavian ...
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Pharmacotherapy of bronchopulmonary dysplasia: modernity and perspective
... preterm newborns with severe form of RDS, requiring the use of hardware ...in newborns was the use of glucocorticosteroids ...in premature infants and it is widely used in neonatology 51], however, ...
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Adherence to oxygenation and ventilation targets in mechanically ventilated premature and sick newborns: a retrospective study
... extremely premature newborns did not receive excessive amounts of oxygen (Tables 1 and ...sick newborns with pulmonary hypertension are at higher risk of developing high levels of hyperoxemia when ...
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CARE OF THE PREMATURE INFANT
... Recent studies have shown that the diag- nosis may be made during life by serial determinations of the capillary hematocnit in premature newborns; a precipitous de- dine in the first 10 [r] ...
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