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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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Palliative care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
2015This 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 +2 more
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Perinatal Palliative Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2022With the frequency of infant deaths in the United States, many attributed to congenital malformations and prematurity, the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurse must be adept at planning and providing perinatal palliative care. The NICU nurse requires education and training to proficiently contribute to the care planning and delivery of care and ...
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Wound Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Neonatal Network, 2011The 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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Nursing Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
JOGN Nursing, 1982The field of neonatal care has evolved into a specialty brimming with technological advances, accompanied by expanded nursing roles and responsibilities. In light of this, the impact that thermoregulation, noise pollution, and disruptive care planning can have upon the progress of a sick newborn is discussed.
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Sedation in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: International Practice
2014Inadequate pain management in neonatal life impairs neurodevelopmental outcome because it alters pain thresholds, pain- or stress-related behavior, and physiological responses later in life. However, there are recently also emerging animal experimental and human epidemiological data on the impact of analgo-sedatives on neuro-apoptosis and impaired ...
Allegaert, Karel, van den Anker, John
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Covering the Costs of Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
Pediatrics, 1992The continued rise of health care costs, despite private and governmental control efforts, has sustained cost containment as a central issue for health care researchers and policy makers. In keeping with these concerns, the Florida Health Care Cost Containment Board conducted a study of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Florida to ascertain the ...
A W, Imershein +3 more
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Anesthesia for Procedures in the Intensive Care Unit and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
2011Anesthesiologists who are assigned to provide anesthesia for operations in the intensive care unit (ICU) must adapt principles of safe and effective anesthesia practice to this novel outside-of-the-operating-room environment. Among the reasons to perform surgical procedures at the bedside in the ICU is the avoidance of transporting an unstable ...
John K. Stene, Carolyn A. Barbieri
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