OBJECTIVE: Pneumothorax is one of the most common pulmonary air leak syndromes and appears more often in newborn period than at any other time life. We aimed to determine compare demographic characteristics, clinical courses outcomes newborns with primary secondary pneumothorax this study. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In single-centre retrospective study, maternal neonatal data were collected from med...

Improving the outcome of the infants cared for in one's neonatal intensive care unit is the main objective of improvement projects that are pursued independently or as a member of a national collaborative. Regional quality improvement collaborations represent the intersection of hospital-based and community-based medicine offering the possibility of coordinated improvement efforts conducted at ...

This article presents the elements of the Oral Motor Intervention section of the Infant Care Path for Physical Therapy in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The types of physical therapy interventions presented in this path are evidence based as well as infant driven and family focused. In the context of anticipated maturation of suck-swallow-breathe coordination, the timing and methods f...

OBJECTIVE To report the patterns and causes of neonatal death from a tertiary care neonatal intensive care unit over a period of four years. METHODS This is a retrospective cohort study where four years data (January 2006 - December 2009) of all inborn neonatal admissions and deaths were collected from the neonatal intensive care unit at Sultan Qaboos University hospital on predesigned forms....

OBJECTIVE To assess the use of the Neonatal Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (NTISS) as a tool to quantify the use of technology in neonatal intensive care units, in order to detect discrepancies in the care provided to high-risk newborn infants. METHODS Prospective, descriptive, observational study about the use of technology in two neonatal intensive care units (one public and one pr...