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Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Antibiotic Use

Pediatrics, 2015
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Treatment of suspected infection is a mainstay of the daily work in the NICU. We hypothesized that NICU antibiotic prescribing practice variation correlates with rates of proven infection, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), mortality, inborn admission, and with NICU surgical volume and ...
Joseph, Schulman, Robert J, Dimand, Henry C, Lee, Grace V, Duenas, Mihoko V, Bennett, Jeffrey B, Gould   +5 more
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The effects of auditory interventions on pain and comfort in premature newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit; a randomised controlled trial.

Intensive & Critical Care Nursing, 2020
OBJECTIVE This study investigated the effects of three auditory interventions; white noise, recorded mother's voice, and MiniMuffs, applied during a heel lance on pain and comfort in premature infants in the neonatal intensive care units.
Ayşe Kahraman, Merve Gümüş, M. Akar, Melike Sipahi, Hatice Bal Yılmaz, Z. Başbakkal   +5 more
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Oral care in a neonatal intensive care unit

The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 2016
Compare the oral colonization profile of premature infants admitted at NICU before and after doing oral care routine with sterile water versus no intervention.It was a randomized clinical trial composed of 37 premature infants admitted at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with a birth weight (BW)
Beatriz, Fernandez Rodriguez, Lorena, Peña Gonzalez, Maria Cruz, Calvo, Fernando, Chaves Sanchez, Carmen Rosa, Pallas Alonso, Concepción, de Alba Romero   +5 more
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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 Unit Discharge Preparedness

Clinical Pediatrics, 2012
Objective. To investigate specific post–neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) discharge outcomes and issues for families. Study design. The authors prospectively surveyed family’s discharge preparedness at the infant’s NICU discharge. In the weeks after the infant was discharged, families were interviewed by telephone for self-reported utilization of ...
Vincent C, Smith, Dmitry, Dukhovny, John A F, Zupancic, Heidi B, Gates, Dewayne M, Pursley   +4 more
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The Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit

Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1984
Among the many recent health-care issues attracting public attention, few have been as emotionally charged and have generated as much concern as that of treatment decisions in which care has been withheld from seriously ill and handicapped infants. This attention has resulted in a movement to establish more direct federal and state regulation of these
John R. Raye, Joseph M. Healey
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Immunization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Clinics in Perinatology, 2021
Premature infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit are at risk for severe infections and infectious complications caused by vaccine-preventable diseases. Both maternal and neonatal vaccination prevent such infections and improve outcomes for premature infants. An understanding of vaccine efficacy, safety, and administration recommendations,
Dustin D, Flannery, Kelly C, Wade
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Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Report Cards

Pediatrics, 1998
* Abbreviations: ICU = : intensive care unit • NTISS = : Neonatal Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System • SNAP = : Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology • VLBW = : very low birth weight • NICU = : neonatal intensive care unit Severity of illness scores, based on deranged physiology, are used to ...
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Wound Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Neonatal Network, 2011
The skin is a vital organ with key protective functions. Infants in the NICU are at risk for skin injury because of developmental immaturity and intensive care treatments. When skin injury occurs, the neonatal nurse is challenged to provide wound care to optimize functional and cosmetic healing.
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Palliative care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

2015
This chapter presents the core values of neonatal palliative care within the context of providing culturally appropriate, compassionate, individualized, family-centered developmental care (IFCDC) and patient-focused care for infants receiving care in the NICU environment.
Cheryl Thaxton, Brigit Carter, Chi Dang Hornik   +2 more
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