Background: The present study aimed to assess handling procedures and their effects on the sleep-wake time in the preterm infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Methods: This observationalcross-sectional study was conducted in the NICU ofVali-e-Asr Teaching Hospital affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Iran in 2016. Sample population consisted of 15...

OBJECTIVE To compare a clinical nurse specialist/neonatal practitioner (CNS/NP) team with a pediatric resident team in the delivery of neonatal intensive care. DESIGN Randomized, controlled trial. SETTING A 33-bed tertiary-level neonatal intensive care unit. PATIENTS Of 821 infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit between September 1991 and September 1992, 414 were randomized ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether analgesic use for painful procedures performed in neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) differs during nights and days and during each of the 6 h period of the day. DESIGN Conducted as part of the prospective observational Epidemiology of Painful Procedures in Neonates study which was designed to collect in real time and around-the-clock bedside da...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this research is to assess causes and circumstances of deaths in extremely low gestational age neonates (ELGANs) born in Switzerland over a 3-year period. DESIGN Population-based, retrospective cohort study. SETTING All nine level III perinatal centres (neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and affiliated obstetrical services) in Switzerland. PATIENTS ELGANs with a g...

OBJECTIVE Rooming-in, the practice of caring for mother and newborn together in the same room immediately from birth, is preferred for the general postpartum population but is not yet standard practice of care for newborns of substance-using women. Such newborns are usually separated from their mothers and admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit and treated for substance withdrawal if necess...

Ten percent of infants born in the United States are admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICU) annually. Approximately one-half of these admissions are from term infants (>34 weeks of gestation) at risk for systemic infection. Most of the term infants are not infected but rather have symptoms consistent with other medical conditions that mimic sepsis. The current standard of care for eva...

BACKGROUND By changing the paradigm of neonatal intensive care and integrating parents into the care team, the 'family integrated care' (FICare) model developed in Canada ensures that infants receive more consistent care and parents are better able to care for their infants within the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and at home. However, Chinese health policy dictates that parents are not a...

conclusions despite the progress made in medicine, meconium aspiration syndrome is still one of the causes of newborn infants’ mortality. the mortality and morbidity rates can be reduced by improvement in perinatal care, prevention of post term delivery, timely caesarean and effective neonatal resuscitation at birth. results sixty-three newborn infants, diagnosed with meconium aspiration syndro...

The feasibility of utilizing maximum length sequence analysis (MLSA) with newborns was examined on 40 premature infants residing in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) were initially obtained using a conventional stimulus rate of 33.3/sec. Using MLSA, responses were also recorded using much faster stimulus rates (227.3/sec, 454.5/sec, and 909.1/sec). As ex...

The objective of this study was to understand the meaning of being a nurse and providing care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of a general hospital in Southern Brazil, developing an explanatory theoretical model. The Grounded Theory and the Complexity Paradigm were used to develop the Theoretical Model: Caring for newborns in the NICU: Dealing with the fragility of living/surviving i...