Intensive Care, Neonatal
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Bovine lactoferrin supplementation for prevention of late-onset sepsis in very low-birth-weight neonates: a randomized trial.

5 Oct 2009 CONTEXT: Sepsis is a common and severe complication in premature neonates, particularly those with very low birth weight (VLBW) (<1500 g). Whether lactoferrin, a mammalian milk glycoprotein involved in innate immune host defenses, can reduce the ... Read more...

Effects of individualized developmental care in a randomized trial of preterm infants <32 weeks.

26 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The goal was to investigate the effects of the Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) on days of respiratory support and intensive care, growth, and neuromotor development at term age for infants born at ... Read more...

The need for hospital-based neonatal palliative care programs in Saudi Arabia.

30 Aug 2009 The terms palliative care, supportive care, and comfort care are used to describe individualized care that can provide a dying person the best quality of life until the end. The term "end-of-life care" is also used in a general sense to refer to all ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Intensive Care, Neonatal'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Bovine lactoferrin supplementation for prevention of late-onset sepsis in very low-birth-weight neonates: a randomized trial. 5 Oct 2009
• Effects of individualized developmental care in a randomized trial of preterm infants <32 weeks. 26 Sep 2009
• The need for hospital-based neonatal palliative care programs in Saudi Arabia. 30 Aug 2009
• [Premature infants' right to cae and the unwillingness to modify the view on abortions] 30 Aug 2009
• A 3-day-old boy with acute flaccid paralysis. 30 Aug 2009
• The intensive medical care of sick, impaired, and preterm newborns in Israel and the production of vulnerable neonatal subjectivities. 30 Aug 2009
• Resuscitation at the limits of viability--an Irish perspective. 30 Aug 2009
• [Difficult questions must be further illuminated in the debate on extremely premature infants] 30 Aug 2009
• Factorial switching linear dynamical systems applied to physiological condition monitoring. 30 Aug 2009
• Effects of transfusions in extremely low birth weight infants: a retrospective study. 30 Aug 2009
• Cognitive aid for neonatal resuscitation: a prospective single-blinded randomized controlled trial. 16 Aug 2009
• Hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 13 Aug 2009
• [Congress Report: "Recent advances in neonatology" , Würzburg, October 2nd-4th, 2008] 12 Aug 2009
• Nonoral feeding practices for infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. 30 Jul 2009
• Including parents in the evaluation of clinical microsystems in the neonatal intensive care unit. 30 Jul 2009
• Supporting staff recovery and reintegration after a critical incident resulting in infant death. 30 Jul 2009
• Hypotension and shock in the preterm neonate. 30 Jul 2009
• Humidification during high-frequency oscillation ventilation is affected by ventilator circuit and ventilatory setting. 30 Jul 2009
• [The question worth a more nuanced discussion] 30 Jul 2009
• [The decision can't be made by the parents alone] 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Intensive Care, Neonatal'

Definition: Continuous care and monitoring of newborn infants with life-threatening conditions, in any setting.

Descriptor UI: D015931

Alternative terms: Intensive Care, Neonatal; Infant, Newborn, Intensive Care; Neonatal Intensive Care; Care, Neonatal Intensive;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.190.400.405; N02.421.088.120.120; N02.421.585.190.400.405;

History Note: 90

Technical Notes: check also tags HUMANS & INFANT, NEWBORN