OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to test the hypothesis that the availability and selective use of STAN in conjunction with cardiotocography for intrapartum monitoring, lowers the incidence of operative deliveries for fetal distress. DESIGN Observational study. SETTING Delivery suite of the National University Hospital, Singapore. METHODS The data regarding intrapartum cesarean se...

Continuous monitoring of health parameters is crucial for preterm new born babies admitted at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in hospitals. The critically ill neonates are extremely tiny and vulnerable to external disturbance. In the context of ambient intelligence and smart environments, non-invasive health monitoring with wearable sensors is promising for the survival of these neonate...

background: neonatal deaths mostly occur within the first one week and first 24 hours of life from a variety of conditions. objective: to examine the role of significant hypothermia and hypoglycaemia, in addition to some other factors, in neonatal mortality occurring within the first 24 hours of admission.methods: a prospective study of newborn infants hospitalized within the first 24 hours of ...

s / Early Human Development 58 (2000) 69 –76 73 The cognitive processes of doctors and nurses in the interpretation of physiologia a a cal monitoring data in the neonate. Neil McIntosh , Andrew J. Lyon , Jan Reiss , a b b b c Julie Clare Becher , Robert Logie , Ken Gilhooley , Eugenio Alberdi , Jim Hunter , a b Neonatology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; Psychology, c Univers...

A series of governance issues currently surrounds the multiple uses and multiple users of dried blood spots (DBS) for research purposes. Internationally there is a discussion on storing DBS resulting from newborn screening for public health and using them as the basis for large biobank-like collections to facilitate biomedical research. If such a transformation were to be formalized, then DBS w...

Executive Summary In the first edition of this report, the Task Force on Neonatal Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy outlined criteria deemed essential to establish a causal link between intrapartum hypoxic events and cerebral palsy. It is now known that there are multiple potential causal pathways that lead to cerebral palsy in term infants (see Fig. 1), and the signs and symptoms of neonatal e...

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) represents a complex and multi-in/output context aimed at monitoring and controlling biological signals and parameters in premature newborns. This paper details some methodological and design options for developing technologies that allow end-user composition and control through new approaches that integrate wearable monitoring, pervasive and unobtrusive ...

Acute osteomyelitis, although a rare complication in neonates, is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Due to their immature immune response neonates are more susceptible to osteomyelitis than are older children. Preterm infants are at high risk for osteomyelitis because of frequent blood drawing, invasive monitoring/procedures and intravenous drug administration [1,2]. Early diagnosis of ne...

OBJECTIVES Our goal was to assess the impact of programmatic and coordinated use of transcutaneous bilirubinometry (TcB) on the incidence of severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and measures of laboratory, hospital, and nursing resource utilization. METHODS We compared the neonatal hyperbilirubinemia-related outcomes of 14 796 prospectively enrolled healthy infants ≥35 weeks gestation offered r...

Objectives: To evaluate the specificity of Procalcitonin (ProCT) as marker of neonatal infection. Materials and Methods: The study includes 131 newborns admitted to the NICU. ProCT was determined in 5 groups of newborn with Sepsis, Asphyxia, Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS), Localized Infection and in uninfected patients. Results: Serum ProCT values were significatively high in sepsis group ...