Over 400,000 premature infants are born in the United States every year. The number of infants born weighing less than five pounds, as well the survival of those who might have previously died has steadily increased since 1984 (March of Dimes, 1999). Having a premature infant has a tremendous impact on families, both in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and at home, after discharge. Prema...

UNLABELLED Publication of the report of Bergman et al. should stimulate replications by others. If these investigators' findings are confirmed, and clear guidelines for the care of premature infants in the kangaroo method in the first 6 h and beyond are published, with particular attention to warm coverings for the babies' backs, this research could benefit large numbers of premature infants in...

The term natal tooth describes the tooth present at the time of birth. This is a rare case report of 31 weeks old premature infant with natal tooth. There is very little literature reporting about the natal or neonatal teeth in premature infants and its management. Through this article we wish to bring awareness about the presence of natal tooth and its complications in premature infants and wh...

Introduction: The prevalence of retinopathy of prematurity is expected to increase along with the developing of premature infants’ care and better prognosis of these infants. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of retinopathy of prematurity in preterm infants. Methods: According to this cross-sectional study, one same ophthalmologist examined the eyes of all the babies at 4 we...

background: the purpose of this study was to perform the creating opportunities for parent empowerment (cope) program for iranian mothers and evaluate its effectiveness on stress,  anxiety, and participation of mothers who have premature infants hospitalized in neonatal intensive care units (nicus). materials and methods: a randomized clinical trial was conducted with 90 mothers of premature in...

Advances in neonatal intensive care have significantly improved the survival rate of premature infants in the past two decades. Modern medical technology has continued to push back the limits of mortality, resulting in more aggressive interventions so that infants as young as 23 weeks gestation with weights as low as 500 grams may now survive (Szatmari, Saigal, Rosenbaum & Campbell, 1994). Data...

In a clinical trial from 1969 to 1972, Sir Graham Collingwood Liggins and Ross Howie [4] showed that if doctors treat pregnant women with corticosteroids before those women deliver prematurely, then those womens' infants have fewer cases of respiratory distress syndrome [5] than do similarly premature infants of women not treated with corticosteroids. Prior to the study, premature infants born ...

Exact knowledge of the nutrient requirements of premature infants is critically important for the prevention of postnatal growth failure and for improved neurodevelopmental outcome. Methods whereby nutrient requirements can be estimated fall into two categories, factorial methods and empirical methods. Each have their advantages and disadvantages. The factorial methods provide estimates of requ...