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Death in neonatal intensive care

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 1994
AbstractThe aim of this study was to review the frequency of decisions to withdraw treatment from neonates who had died in a large neonatal intensive care unit the reasons for these decisions, and the procedures followed. A 12 month retrospective review of medical and nursing records was undertaken. There were 67 deaths; treatment was withdrawn from 52
N P, Kelly, S R, Rowley, J E, Harding
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Neonatal intensive care perspective

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2011
The hemodynamic evaluation and monitoring in the critically ill newborn (particularly the premature infant) poses unique challenges because of urgency, size limitations, and the persistence of fetal shunt channels. Echocardiography and other noninvasive methods are currently the mainstay of hemodynamic assessment.
Neil N, Finer, John P, Kinsella
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THE FAMILY AND NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE

Social Work in Health Care, 1982
The birth of a sick newborn provides great stress for the family. During the illness, the family must face charged issues, including the loss of the perfect child they had anticipated and a fear that their baby may die. Issues related to helping these vulnerable families are examined, including response to the birth of a sick baby, communication with ...
C K, Mahan, J C, Krueger, R L, Schreiner
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Access to Neonatal Intensive Care

The Future of Children, 1995
The birth of a high-risk infant is still a relatively rare, not totally predictable event; and the management of high-risk newborns requires highly skilled personnel and sophisticated technology. In the early days of neonatal intensive care, scarce resources led to regionalized systems of neonatal and, later, perinatal services, generally based on ...
M C, McCormick, D K, Richardson
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Cost of neonatal intensive care

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 1983
ABSTRACT. An analysis was made of the costs of provision for the intensive care of inborn babies in an inner city hospital equipped to deal with high risk obstetrics. Costs showed the expected inverse proportion to birthweight. The larger number of more mature babies nevertheless contributed almost 2/3 of the total cost.
E, John, K, Lee, G M, Li
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Intensive Care of the Neonatal Foal

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice, 1985
The basic concepts of diagnosis and treatment in the abnormal neonatal foal are presented. Methods of restraint, sedation, and general nursing care are discussed, as well as more specific techniques of respiratory and circulatory system support.
A M, Koterba, W H, Drummond, P, Kosch
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Neonatal intensive care neurology

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology, 2004
The pediatric neurologist's role in the neonatal intensive care unit is described in four clinical settings: (1) assessment of outcome in neonatal encephalopathy, (2) treatment of seizures in full-term infants, (3) assessment and treatment of intraventricular hemorrhage with posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus, and (4) assessment of outcome in preterm ...
Walter C, Allan, Daniel B, Sobel
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The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1982
Child psychiatrists have recently been asked to provide consultation and liaison to neonatal intensive care units in order to assist in providing humane care for all those who are distressed by the events that commonly unfold in intensive care units and to help deal with the special neurologic and emotional problems of the high-risk infant and his ...
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Neonatal Intensive Care

American Journal of Diseases of Children, 1989
The March 24/31, 1989, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association is dedicated to timely and important topics relating to newborn medicine. These include articles dealing with perinatal infections 1-3 and prenatal dilemmas. 4,5 The contents of this issue of JAMA are important and relevant to health care professionals who render care to ...
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