It is well-known and documented that the premature birth of an infant and its subsequent hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a source of considerable stress for parents. However, little is known about the parents' emotional state and functioning during the months following the infant's discharge from the NICU. The present study compares parental stress and perceptions ...

INTRODUCTION The birth of an infant requiring hospitalization in the neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) uniformly is reported to be stressful for parents and family members. This study aimed to determine parent-staff communication in the NICU and its relationship to parent stress. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two hundred and three Iranian parents with preterm infants hospitalized in the NICU partic...

kangaroo mother care (kmc) is effective care method that avoids aggressive routinely methods in neonatal wards. objective of this study was comparing kmc with conventional care (incubator) of premature infant in neonatal ward. this study was a randomized controlled clinical trial that has been done in 17 months. 40 premature neonates whose birth weight was less than 1500gr were enrolled in the ...

Aortic coarctation is the most common congenital cardiac malformation due to a narrowing of aorta, commonly occurring just beyond left subclavian artery.The diagnosis mostly neonatal by systemic palpation femoral pulses but can be later discovered at big childs even adult. This fact illustrated through our observation 36-year-old man admitted after head injury, during his hospitalization aortic...

background: currently, the number of premature deliveries has been increasing, resulting in early postnatal discharge due to shortage of beds in the neonatal intensive care units (nicu). methods: this descriptive-analytical study was conducted through investigating the premature infants’ files for gestational age (ga), birth weight (bw) and duration of the first hospitalization. furthermore, th...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of the implementation of neonatal screening on hospitalization and death rates due to sickle cell disease in patients from the state of Maranhão, Brazil. METHODS A descriptive study was performed of all inpatients and deaths of patients with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease in Maranhão between 1999 and 2012. Data were collected from the Hospital Information Sy...

Healthcare-associated infections are a major problem in newborn infants, considering their high morbidity, mortality, and long-term sequelae. In preterm infants, it has been shown that skin and gastrointestinal tract colonization undergoes variations compared to healthy term infants, and that preterm infants are more exposed to nosocomial microorganisms given their higher probability of being a...

Diazoxide is commonly used in the treatment of neonatal hyperinsulinism. We describe a one month-old infant who was treated with diazoxide for prolonged neonatal hyperinsulinism. Shortly after starting diazoxide, she was admitted to the hospital for tachypnea with hypoxemia, and was subsequently diagnosed with laryngomalacia and obstructive apnea. During hospitalization, her clinical course wor...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to compare the primary and secondary outcomes of very low birth weight infants before and after participation in the Breathsavers Group of the Vermont Oxford Network-sponsored Neonatal Intensive Care Quality Collaborative. METHODS Hospitals that participated in the Breathsavers Group contributed clinical data on the outcomes of their very low birth we...