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The danger of diazoxide in the neonatal intensive care unit [PDF]

open access: yesTherapeutic Advances in Drug Safety, 2021
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

open access: yesLa Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica, 2016
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
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the Gap Between Needs and Practice in Facilitating Breastfeeding Within the Neonatal Intensive Care Setting: An Italian Survey on Organizational Factors

open access: yesFrontiers in Pediatrics, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

Cause and predictors of neonatal mortality among neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care units of public hospitals in eastern Ethiopia: a facility-based prospective follow-up study

open access: yesBMC Pediatrics, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Managerial thinking in neonatal care: a qualitative study of place of care decision-making for preterm babies born at 27–31 weeks gestation in England

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Diarrhea in neonatal intensive care unit

open access: yesWorld Journal of Gastroenterology, 2010
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
openaire   +5 more sources

Impact of prematurity on long-stay paediatric intensive care unit admissions in England 2008-2018

open access: yesBMC Pediatrics, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Physiological responses and behavioural organization of very low birth weight infants during swaddled versus traditional weighing

open access: yesNursing Open, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Medication errors in neonatal intensive care units: a multicenter qualitative study in the Palestinian practice

open access: yesBMC Pediatrics, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Pantoea Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [PDF]

open access: yesCureus, 2021
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
openaire   +3 more sources

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