neonatalcaredependencyscalesprospectivemulticentrestudiesAIM To assess whether different classifications of neonatal care or dependency scales are comparable when used in multicentre studies of cost effectiveness. METHODS A survey of classifications was used in a nationally representative group of 57 units in ...
The professionals who routinely work in neonatal units become under stress due to the working conditions and the nature of the tasks carried out. As a consequence of this, they may have high levels of anxiety. Anxiety is defined as an emotional response or response patterns that include cognitiv...
To assess the sound reducing characteristics of modern incubators in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and to better characterize auditory and language exposures for NICU infants. Sound frequency spectral analysis was conducted on language and nois
As manganese can cross the placental barrier and bioaccumulate in fetal and neonatal tissue [5, 7, 44, 45], the potential association between manganese and birth defects is biologically plausible. Manganese exposure is associated with adverse cardiovascular and central nervous system effects in adult...
These placental changes can cause fetal or neonatal AO. The objectives of the present review are 1) to briefly introduce the structure of the human term placenta and the development of the human placenta, 2) to summarize the state of knowledge about the available placenta models, their ...
” Included were nine studies with 233 periodontitis patients and 174 controls [28,29,53,54,56,57,58,59,61]. In contrast to the content of UA in blood, the content of UA in saliva could not be standardized in the enrolled studies due to the use of various units (five used mg/dL ...
The economic cost of preterm birth is high in terms of neonatal intensive care, continuing healthcare, and special educational needs. The societal cost is also high, with many families experi- encing the sudden loss of a preterm baby or a stressful hospital stay, sometimes for months, ...
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Negative events included uterine hyperstimulation, abnormal fetal heart rate, premature rupture of membranes, weak uterine contractions, Apgar score (1 and 5 min), meconium stained liquor, neonatal intensive care unit admission immediately after birth, and stillbirth. Cardiotocography was used to reco...
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