Tuberculosis Exposure from a Healthcare Worker to Patients in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
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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Integrating a sense of coherence into the neonatal environment [PDF]
Background: Family centred care (FCC) is currently a valued philosophy within neonatal care; an approach that places the parents at the heart of all decision-making and engagement in the care of their infant.
Axelin, Anna +4 more
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Diarrhea in neonatal intensive care unit
To investigate the frequency, etiology, and current management strategies for diarrhea in newborn.Retrospective, nationwide study involving 5801 subjects observed in neonatal intensive care units during 3 years. The main anamnesis and demographic characteristics, etiology and characteristics of diarrhea, nutritional and therapeutic management, clinical
PASSARIELLO, ANNALISA +5 more
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Neonatal thyrotoxicosis secondary to maternal graves’ disease: a case report
Introduction 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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Epidemiology of procedural pain in neonatal intensive care units of Portugal [PDF]
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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Hypothermia and Related Factors in High-Risk Infants [PDF]
Purpose: Maintaining body temperature is a key vital function of human beings, but little is known about how body temperature of high-risk infants is sustained during early life after birth.
Youngmee Ahn +5 more
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Nurses Lived Experiences in Neonatal Intensive Care Units [PDF]
Advanced technology is saving infants at earlier stages often only to see them die agonizing deaths or face lifetime infirmities. In this phenomenological study, 16 NICU nurses provided their experiences dealing with these patients, their families and ...
Passmore, Denise
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"A roller coaster of emotions": a qualitative study of parents very first experiences with their preterm baby [PDF]
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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An Electronic Delphi Study to Establish Pediatric Intensive Care Nursing Research Priorities in Twenty European Countries* [PDF]
OBJECTIVES:: To identify and to establish research priorities for pediatric intensive care nursing science across Europe. DESIGN:: A modified three-round electronic Delphi technique was applied.
Latour, Jos M. +3 more
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Impact of neonatal intensive care bed configuration on rates of late-onset bacterial sepsis and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: Infections cause significant morbidity and mortality in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The association between nursery design and nosocomial infections has not been delineated. We hypothesized that rates of colonization by methicillin-
Burnham, Carey-Ann D +6 more
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