79 Variation in Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Canadian Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions

Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...

Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Focal Intestinal Perforation in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany

In preterm infants with very low birth weight (VLBW) <1500 g the most important acquired intestinal diseases are necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) and focal intestinal perforation (FIP). We analyzed data of the neonatology module of national external comparative quality assurance for inpatients in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Between 2010 and 2012, 59 of 3549 VLBW infants developed FI...

Variation among neonatal intensive care units in narcotic administration.

OBJECTIVES To compare rates of narcotic administration for medically treated neonates in different neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and to compare treated and untreated neonates to assess whether narcotics provided advantages or disadvantages for short-term outcomes, such as cardiovascular stability (ie, blood pressure and heart rate), hyperbilirubinemia, duration of respiratory support, g...

Contributing Factors for Development of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

BACKGROUND necrotizing enterocolitis is a serious condition that affects mostly preterm infants, with high mortality rate. AIM to estimate the influence of potentially contributing factors of this multifactorial disease. METHODS the study group included 51 necrotizing enterocolitis infants who were less than 37 week gestation who were hospitalized in NICU during a five year period. The cont...

Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis