Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore airway clearance practices for the preterm newborn in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Study design and methods: This descriptive, retrospective medical record review analyzed airway clearance practices in a le...
Antidepressant use during pregnancy appears to be associated with increased rates of miscarriage,(2) birth defects,(3) preterm birth,(4) low birth weight,(5) newborn behavioral syndrome,(6) persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn,(7) newborn EKG changes,(8) and possible long term ...
Each year, 15 million babies are born preterm in the world. Mortality is higher among preterm neonates than those of term1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Globally, prematurity is the leading cause of under-five children mortality8. Hence, preterm neonatal mortality has continued as an important public ...
The newborn metabolic screening was negative. Download: Download high-res image (238KB) Download: Download full-size image Fig. 1. Computed Tomography (CT) of the paranasal sinuses showing bilateral atretic choanae. Therapeutic intervention At 2 months of chronological age and with a postnatal ...
Although MRI is more sensitive to some abnormalities (eg, diffuse WM injury) than HUS and has played an important role in understanding the encephalopathy of prematurity,14 HUS is still the standard of care for evaluating preterm infants for brain injury in the newborn intensive care unit.19,20...
(IVH), which is characterized by bleeding in the germinal matrix and surrounding white matter. IVH has been found to occur in 20–25% of preterm infants born with very low birth weights (VLBW, < 1500 g) and typically occurs within the first 72 h after birth4. Diagnosis is performed...
The neurological assessment of the preterm and full-term newborn infant: Cambridge University Press; 1999. Illingworth RS. The development of the infant and young child : normal and abnormal . 9th ed. --. Edinburgh; Churchill Livingstone; 1987. Brown T, Lalor A. The Movement Assessment ...
Recommendations on the environment for hospitalised newborn infants from the French neonatal society: rationale, methods and first recommendation on neonatal intensive care unit design. Acta Paediatr. 2018;107(11):1860-6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.14501, PMID 30025190. Liao JH, Hu RF, ...
44 To truly affect newborn outcomes, a comprehensive and sustained effort to reduce the high rates of preterm birth is necessary. Conclusions Among extremely preterm infants born at US academic centers over the last 20 years, changes in maternal and infant care practices and modest reductions in ...
The diagnosis of IUGR is typically based on a baby being small for gestational age (SGA) – meaning that it is smaller than 90% of babies of the same gestational age and sex. In 2006–2007, more than 54,000 (one in seven) babies across Canada were born preterm or SGA. Babies who ...