News tagged with neonatal intensive care unit
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Cold spots contaminated in high humidity incubators
Microbes in human incubators, like those found in neonatal intensive care units, grow most robustly on cold spots when the relative humidity is at least 60 percent, according to a paper in the December 2011 issue of the journal ...
Dec 16, 2011 |
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Hold the gas? Inhaled nitric oxide of no benefit to most premature babies
A new Johns Hopkins Children?s Center study challenges the widespread practice of treating premature babies with nitric oxide gas to prevent lung problems, neurological damage and death. The research, based on analysis of ...
Jan 14, 2011 |
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First study to look at new potential in infant organ donation
There are currently more than 200,000 individuals in the United States on a waiting list for an organ transplant, and nearly 100 are under 1 year of age. In the first study to look at the potential for organ ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Care of late-preterm preemies may be insufficient
In the last 15 years the U.S has seen a sharp increase in the number of babies born as late-preterm infants, between 34 and 37 weeks' gestation. This is approximately 400,000 children each year, comprising over 70 percent ...
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Once upon a time in the Intensive Care Unit ...
The first few days after birth is an important time when babies learn to recognize the sound of their parents' voice and the parents in turn bond with their children. However, the separation between parents and newborns admitted ...
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Even the sickest babies benefit from breast-feeding
Pediatric researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia describe a successful program in which nurses helped mothers attain high rates of breast-feeding in very sick babies--newborns with complex birth defects requiring ...
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Postpartum intervention/support prevents smoking relapse, extends breastfeeding duration
New mothers who smoke are less likely to breastfeed. But those who quit smoking during or just prior to becoming pregnant were significantly more likely to remain smoke free and continue breastfeeding if they received support ...
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Passion for premature babies leads to groundbreaking research
Terrie E. Inder, MD, PhD, learned the meaning of hard work at a young age. She and her siblings often helped out on their grandfather’s New Zealand farm, tossing freshly dug potatoes into sacks they carried ...
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Late preterm births associated with increased risk of respiratory illnesses
An analysis of more than 200,000 deliveries finds that compared to infants born at full term, those born between 34 weeks and 37 weeks are more likely to have severe respiratory illness, and this risk decreases with each ...
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Puerto Rico struggles with high preterm birth rate
(AP) -- The first thing Dr. Marta Valcarcel notices on a walk through a nursery full of tiny, heavily bandaged babies is the empty incubator in the corner.
May 17, 2010 |
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Study assesses complications associated with nasal ventilation in newborns
More than 10 percent of newborns who receive oxygenation and ventilation using nasal continuous airway pressure in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) may experience complications inside or outside the nose, according ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Study finds breast milk has longer shelf life than previously thought
Breast milk can be safely stored in a refrigerator for four days without the threat of bacterial contamination or loss of nutritional value, Long Island scientists have found in a groundbreaking study.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 02, 2010 |
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Researchers find gram-negative rods in two Philippine neonatal intensive care units
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found a high frequency of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative rods (GNRs) in two of the largest neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in the city of Manila, Philippines. ...
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May 15, 2009 |
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Tragic choices: Is it better for doctors or patient families to decide?
In the medical realm, people sometimes need to make very difficult choices, such as deciding to end life-support for a terminally ill patient. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research delves into the question of whe ...
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Death of a child in the neonatal intensive care unit
Little is known about the long-term effects of the death of a child in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) on survivor siblings. These siblings may encounter unforeseen emotional difficulties and developmental consequences ...
Apr 02, 2009 |
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