Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Neonatology, 2018 Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly ...
Naiire Salmani +4 more
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Clinical spectrum and outcomes of neonatal candidiasis in a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan [PDF]
, 2011 Introduction: Candidal infections are a serious problem in neonatal intensive care units, increasing morbidity and mortality in low birth weight infants in addition to escalating health-care costs.
Ariff, Shabina +3 more
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Tuberculosis Exposure from a Healthcare Worker to Patients in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2022 The nosocomial spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a healthcare worker with infectious pulmonary tuberculosis disease to patients remains a risk in the healthcare environment, including neonatal intensive care units.
Maria Casalino +5 more
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Who Receives Home-Based Perinatal Palliative Care: Experience from Poland [PDF]
, 2013 The current literature suggests that perinatal palliative care (PPC) programs should be comprehensive, initiated early, and integrative. So far there have been very few publications on the subject of home-based PC of newborns and neonates.
Korzeniewska-Eksterowicz, Aleksandra +4 more
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Neonatal thyrotoxicosis secondary to maternal graves’ disease: a case report
BMC PediatricsIntroduction Neonatal thyrotoxicosis is a rare condition that often results from maternal antibody transfer, particularly in mothers who have had Graves’ disease. This disorder causes excessive thyroid hormone production in newborns.
Safa Elhassan +4 more
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Clinical assessment of pain in spanish neonatal intensive care units [PDF]
, 2016 [Resumen] Introducción. Las escalas clínicas son hoy en día el mejor método para evaluar el dolor en el neonato, dada la imposibilidad de autorreporte en este grupo de edad.
Anand, Kanwaljeet J.S. +5 more
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Antimicrobial therapy in neonatal intensive care unit [PDF]
Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2015 Severe infections represent the main cause of neonatal mortality accounting for more than one million neonatal deaths worldwide every year. Antibiotics are the most commonly prescribed medications in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and in industrialized countries about 1% of neonates are exposed to antibiotic therapy. Sepsis has often nonspecific
Tzialla, C. +4 more
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EOSINOPHILIA IN THE NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
Clinics in Perinatology, 2000 Although common in the neonatal intensive care unit, eosinophilia is often overlooked or ignored. The latter might be, at least in part, because evaluating the neonate with eosinophilia can be a complex process. This article reviews the physiologic features of eosinophilia, reference ranges, and clinical conditions associated with eosinophilia in the ...
Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida ( host institution ) +2 more
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Epidemiology of procedural pain in neonatal intensive care units of Portugal [PDF]
, 2015 Frequency of painful procedures, analgesia practices and related factors in neonates across neonatal intensive care units of ...
Cruz, Maria Dulce +2 more
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"A roller coaster of emotions": a qualitative study of parents very first experiences with their preterm baby [PDF]
, 2013 Objectives: To assess parents 19 first experiences of their very preterm babies and the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Design: Qualitative study using semistructured interviews. Participants: 32 mothers and 7 fathers of very preterm babies (
Abbott, Jane +6 more
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