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Hypotonia in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Clinics in PerinatologyHypotonia is a common presenting symptom in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Hypotonia can be a manifestation of an underlying systemic illness, a primary nervous system disease, or a peripheral nervous system disease. Examination and history can suggest specific causes, but rapid and accurate diagnosis remains challenging due to the broad ...
Jennifer C, Keene +2 more
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Sibling Visiting in a neonatal intensive care unit
Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1983The effect of sibling visiting in a neonatal intensive care unit was studied. Sixteen siblings of 13 infants were randomly assigned to a visiting or nonvisiting group. Behavioral patterns were measured by questionnaires administered to the parents and by direct observation and interviews with the children.
F, Schwab +3 more
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Evaluation of Noise in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
American Journal of Perinatology, 1996This study evaluated the noise level inside the incubators in a neonatal intensive care unit and identified its sources in order to attempt to reduce it. Although noise is not a proven risk factor as far as the sensory integrity of newborns is concerned, it is certainly an important cause of stress to them and a source of serious and dangerous changes ...
BENINI F +4 more
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Paternalism in the neonatal intensive care unit
Theoretical Medicine, 1984Two factors are discussed which have important implications for the issue of paternalism in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU): the physician's role as advocate for the patient; and the range of typical responses of parents who learn that their neonate has a serious illness.
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OUTBREAK OF INFLUENZA IN A NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1977An outbreak of influenza A/Victoria/3/75 (H3N2) involving five infants in a neonatal intensive care unit is described. The clinical signs and symptoms were indistinguishable from those seen in bacterial sepsis. There was no evidence of meningoencephalitis. All infants recovered without any sequelae.
R, Meibalane +4 more
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Psychiatry in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Clinics in Perinatology, 1980The primary role of the psychiatrist in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is to assist in providing humane care for those in distress--the infants, the parents, and the staff. The issues that face NICU psychiatrists and the unique characteristics of these groups of individuals with whom they interact are presented.
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A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
American Journal of Diseases of Children, 1974This report summarizes the first four years' experience of a regional neonatal intensive care unit. The facility, located in a community hospital, includes a normal newborn nursery, an observation unit, and an intensive care unit. Seventeen percent of the births enter the observation unit, and 5% are admitted to the intensive care unit.
R D, Zachman, S N, Graven
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The Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1984Among 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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Caring for Indigenous families in the neonatal intensive care unit
Nursing Inquiry, 2020AbstractInequitable access to health care, social inequities, and racist and discriminatory care has resulted in the trend toward poorer health outcomes for Indigenous infants and their families when compared to non‐Indigenous families in Canada. How Indigenous mothers experience care during an admission of their infant to the Neonatal Intensive Care ...
Amy L. Wright +2 more
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Methaemoglobinaemia among neonates in a neonatal intensive care unit
Acta Paediatrica, 1995After detection of a few clinical cases of methaemoglobinaemia (methb) in our NICU, a prospective clinical study was undertaken to determine the extent of the problem and to identify the causes. Consequently, during the following 8 months all haemoglobin tests included simultaneous measurements of methb on an OSM 3 hemoximeter (Radiometer): 8% (n= 33 ...
Hjelt, K +7 more
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