"Survival at this gestational age has never happened before, so before Curtis was born his chances of survival would have been far less than 1%" –Dr Colm Travers, assistant professor in the UAB Division of Neonatology "Initially Curtis was on a lot of breathing support and...
In addition, researchers have recently also been able to pinpoint two additional factors that contribute to the chances of survival for a particular child:the genderand whether or not the mother receivedante-natal steroidsbefore the baby was born. The latter is a medicine that promotes lung devel...
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Intratracheal surfactant was administered in two aliquots in left and right lateral positions, whereas the baby was supported on a volume cycle ventilator (Drager, Evita) with a tidal volume of 5 ml kg–1, rate 35 breaths per min, inspiratory time 0.35 s and FiO2 as need to maintain ...
Because of increased survival rates of extremely low birth weight infants, (< 1000 g), scientific research in the areas of Protecting Skin and Safeguarding Sleep core measures has increased over the last decade. This knowledge has been used to enhance the training related to these two topics. ...
The fear of mother handling small premature baby gradually disappeared. There was increase in the duration and rate of breastfeeding. Mothers developed self... S Manandhar,S Joshi,BL Bajracharya,... - 《Journal of Nepal Paediatric Society》 被引量: 3发表: 2007年 Mothers' Agency in Managing ...
skin breakage rate of the study group were obviously decreased. The number of cases with SpO2 < 85%, heart rate > 160 times, /min was less, and the difference between the two groups was significant (p< 0.05), see table 1. 2.2, two groups of premature weight and length of hospital st...
The article reports on the decrease of the survival rate of extremely premature babies in Great Britain. Based on the research study led by David Field at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, it was found out that none of the recorded 150 babies born at 22 weeks survived in either period. Neena ...
The baby was transferred in-utero to the regional fetal medicine centre whereby the multidisciplinary team opted for immediate caesarean section for the best possible chance of survival for the baby.Following delivery the baby was intubated, ventilated and started on isoprenaline and dobutamine infusions...
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