This paper describes one year's experience with the running of a special postnatal ward area, established so that babies who needed more treatment and monitoring than is generally undertaken on postnatal wards but who did not need the facilities of the neonatal unit could be kept by their mother's bedside. This 'intermediate care ward' admitted 297 babies with their mothers during its first yea...

INTRODUCTION Maternal body mass index has an impact on maternal and fetal pregnancy outcome. An increased maternal BMI is known to be associated with admission of the newborn to a neonatal care unit. The reasons and impact of this admission on fetal outcome, however, are unknown so far. OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to investigate the impact of maternal BMI on maternal and fetal pregnanc...

Excessive noise pollution is often a problem for neonatal nurseries. Noise involves not only but also vibrations. The main difference between them that can be heard, and vibrations are felt. human ear cannot detect waves outside the range of 20 Hz–20 KHz. Waves from 0 Hz to 80–100 should considered Both transmitted neonate through incubator’s operational mechanisms other sources. Neonatal units...

Dear and McLain have shown clearly how the establishment of an intermediate care ward reduced the admission rate to their neonatal unit.' Although such a ward may be useful in some hospitals, a similar admission rate has been achieved at this hospital by different means. In 1979 the admission rate to the neonatal unit was 15-7%. Seven years later it had fallen to 5-2% of babies delivered at the...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To determine if a team dedicated to basic neonatal resuscitation in the delivery ward of a teaching hospital would impact the outcome of neonates delivered in Kampala, Uganda. METHODS A five-member team of nurses, trained in basic neonatal resuscitation attended 1046 deliveries over a thirty-one day pilot period. They were available in the delivery ward twenty-four hours e...

Background: Neonatal infections currently cause 1.6 million deaths in developing countries. Resistance to commonly used drug is emerging as the most important problem globally. Therefore rational use of antibiotic is a priority to reduce the burden of treatment failure. Objective: To evaluate the magnitude of neonatal infections in the neonatal ward of a medical institution and pattern of antib...

background: jaundice is a common condition among neonates. prolonged unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia occurs when jaundice persists beyond two weeks in term neonates and three weeks in preterm neonates. this study aimed to determine the etiologies of prolonged unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in infants admitted to the neonatal ward of besat hospital in hamadan, iran. methods: this study was cond...

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...

Some maternal factors associated with neonatal hypoglycemia justify monitoring blood glucose levels in the first 24 hours of life. The objective of this study was to describe the socio-demographic and obstetric characteristics of mothers to newborns undergoing capillary blood glucose control in the first 24 hours of life, hospitalized in a rooming-in maternity ward of a Baby Friendly Hospital. ...