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The danger of diazoxide in the neonatal intensive care unit [PDF]
Background: The most common cause of persistent hypoglycemia in infancy is hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia. When conservative measures fail, providers often use medications to treat persistent hypoglycemia. Diazoxide is first-line therapy for neonatal hypoglycemia and works by inhibiting insulin secretion.
Jay Desai+4 more
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Neonatal gastrointestinal involvement and congenital cytomegalovirus
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common cause of congenital viral infection, affecting 0.2 to 2.3% of all live births in developed countries. Very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight newborns are at higher risk of symptomatic CMV infection ...
Alessandro Porta+6 more
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Introduction: The system-level factors of the neonatal intensive care unit work environment contribute to breastfeeding promotion in the preterm population.
Elisabetta Tambani+10 more
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Background The first month is the most crucial period for child survival. Neonatal mortality continues to remain high with little improvement over the years in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia.
Assefa Desalew+7 more
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Objectives Preterm babies born between 27 and 31 weeks of gestation in England are usually born and cared for in either a neonatal intensive care unit or a local neonatal unit—with such units forming part of Operational Delivery Networks.
Neena Modi+15 more
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Diarrhea in neonatal intensive care unit
To investigate the frequency, etiology, and current management strategies for diarrhea in newborn.Retrospective, nationwide study involving 5801 subjects observed in neonatal intensive care units during 3 years. The main anamnesis and demographic characteristics, etiology and characteristics of diarrhea, nutritional and therapeutic management, clinical
PASSARIELLO, ANNALISA+5 more
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Impact of prematurity on long-stay paediatric intensive care unit admissions in England 2008-2018
Background Survival following extreme preterm birth has improved, potentially increasing the number of children with ongoing morbidity requiring intensive care in childhood.
Tim J. van Hasselt+6 more
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Aim Despite the consequences of neonatal distress and agitation, preterm infants undergo stress owing to weighing procedures. The objective of this study was to enable very low birth weight infants to maintain adequate self‐regulation during weighing ...
Silvia Vicente‐Perez+6 more
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Background Neonatal intensive care units are high-risk settings where medication errors can occur and cause harm to this fragile segment of patients. This multicenter qualitative study was conducted to describe medication errors that occurred in neonatal
Ramzi Shawahna+4 more
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Pantoea Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [PDF]
Pantoea is a plant pathogen infrequently reported to cause opportunistic bloodstream infections. This gram-negative bacillus is a rare cause of hospital-acquired infections in newborn infants with high mortality. Since the creation of the new genus Pantoea in 1989, the evidence base available to neonatal health care providers is limited.
Srinivasan Mani, Jayasree Nair
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