The goal was to identify sound pressure level (SPL) at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and inside the incubator of a teaching hospital of a public university from São Paulo - SP, Brazil. SPL inside the NICU and the incubator were measured using four dosimeters in January/2010. SPL at the NICU varied from 52.6 dBA to 80.4 dBA and inside the incubator, from 45.4 dBA to 79.1 dBA. SPL both ...

conclusions most of the catheter-related deaths were due to severe sepsis and hemothorax, and a significant relationship was noted between infection and both the mortality rate and catheterization duration. a significant relationship was also evident between birth weight and infection rates. background developments in the use of central venous catheters have improved the treatment of critically...

Background: Blood transfusion is a relatively common practice in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Regarding that few studies have been conducted on infants in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), this study was investigated the frequency of blood components usage for preterm infants in NICU. Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study and was cond...

Latar belakang: Ketika benc
 Tujuan: Memberikan gambaran strategi atau manajemen NICU yang diberlakukan dalam rangka kesiapsiagaan di tengah pandemi COVID-19 untuk membantu rumah sakit dan pemangku kebijakan perencanaan layanan alokasi sumber daya.
 Metode: Tinjauan studi sistematis ini dilakukan dengan mengikuti Systematic review Meta-Analysis pada panduan item pelaporan PRISMA. Penc...

There are anecdotal reports of expecting mothers, likely to deliver an infant requiring neonatal intensive care, transferred between hospitals because of lack of local neonatal intensive care capacity. However, there are no data on the scale of this practice. The job of locating an admitting hospital often befalls the clinical staff on busy delivery units, taking them away from direct clinical ...