Neonatal thermal stabilisation can become challenging when uncontrollable factors result in excessive body temperature. Hyperthermia can rapidly slow down baby's progress and response to treatment. High sunlight intensity in tropical countries such as Nigeria manifests in incessant high neonatal temperatures towards early evenings. The ugly consequences of this neonatal evening-fever syndrome (...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of dual-strain probiotics on the development of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), mortality and nosocomial bloodstream infections (BSI) in preterm infants in German neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). DESIGN A multi-center interrupted time series analysis. SETTING 44 German NICUs with routine use of dual-strain probiotics on neonatal ward level. PATIENT...

introduction: serratia marcescens is a serious death-causing factor especially for premature and low birth weighted neonates, and has become an important cause of nosocomial infection over the last years. it is a motile, non-sporulating gram-negative bacillus classified in the family enterobacteriacea. this group of bacteria affect on immune system mainly in newborns.  in this report, we descri...

admitted to the paediatric ward, representing 3-8% (17/439) of the infants under 1 year but 12% of the bed occupancy. Infants who had previously been in the neonatal intensive care unit accounted for a large proportion of the bed occupancy partly because they stayed in the ward longer for general problems (such as upper respiratory infections and social and feeding difficulties) than the other ...

Background: In Neonatal intensive care units (NICU) different sound intensities and frequencies are produced from different sources, which may exert undesirable physiological effects on the infants. The aim of this study was to determine the noise level and its sources in the NICU and neonatal ward of Al-Zahra Hospital of Rasht, Iran. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, the inte...

ABSTRACT Objective: to know nurses' perception in relation the Nursing Process directed newborns a usual risk maternity ward. Method: an action-research study was conducted between September 2021 and January 2022 with nurses from ward southern Brazil. The data collected through focus groups were submitted content analysis. Results: organized analyzed resulted two thematic categories, namely: pr...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE In gastroschisis it is proposed that gut reduction may be achieved without intubation or general anesthesia (GA) through ward reduction. The authors aimed to determine if ward reduction decreased morbidity and duration of treatment. METHODS Infants born from January 1, 1995, to December 31, 2001, with gastroschisis were managed with either reduction under GA in the operatin...