Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
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Monday, November 23, 2009

End-of-life decisions in Dutch neonatal intensive care units.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To clarify the practice of end-of-life decision making in severely ill newborns. DESIGN: Retrospective descriptive study with face-to-face interviews. SETTING: The 10 neonatal intensive care units in the Netherlands from October 2005 to ... Read more...

Second-stage labor duration in nulliparous women: relationship to maternal and perinatal outcomes.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess maternal and perinatal outcomes as a function of second-stage labor duration. STUDY DESIGN: We assessed outcomes in nulliparous laboring women who were enrolled in a trial of fetal pulse oximetry. ... 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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Intensive Care Units, Neonatal'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Death in the Netherlands: evidence and argument. 29 Sep 2009
• End-of-life decisions in Dutch neonatal intensive care units. 29 Sep 2009
• Second-stage labor duration in nulliparous women: relationship to maternal and perinatal outcomes. 29 Sep 2009
• NIDCAP: new controversial evidence for its effectiveness. 26 Sep 2009
• NIDCAP: testing the effectiveness of a relationship-based comprehensive intervention. 26 Sep 2009
• Effects of individualized developmental care in a randomized trial of preterm infants <32 weeks. 26 Sep 2009
• Improvement of short- and long-term outcomes for very low birth weight infants: Edmonton NIDCAP trial. 26 Sep 2009
• The inverse groups? 13 Sep 2009
• A scoring system for early prognostic assessment after neonatal seizures. 12 Sep 2009
• Prenatal consultation with a neonatologist for congenital anomalies: parental perceptions. 5 Sep 2009
• Letter to Lee et al. 30 Aug 2009
• Parental decision-making in NICU. 30 Aug 2009
• The art of inconsistency: evidence-based practice my way. 30 Aug 2009
• Neonatal enteral feeding tubes as loci for colonisation by members of the Enterobacteriaceae. 30 Aug 2009
• Oxygen therapy in the neonatal care environment. 30 Aug 2009
• Active surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the neonatal intensive care unit. 30 Aug 2009
• Pseudo-outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus infection in a neonatal intensive care unit due to cross-reactivity of surfactant and a rapid immunoassay. 30 Aug 2009
• [Careful planning of the decision-making process in neonatology: ethical orientation] 12 Aug 2009
• Improving the quality of care for infants: a cluster randomized controlled trial. 8 Aug 2009
• Nonoral feeding practices for infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Intensive Care Units, Neonatal'

Definition: Hospital units providing continuing surveillance and care to acutely ill newborn infants.

Descriptor UI: D007363

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

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

Tree Number: N02.278.388.493.390.380;

History Note: 82

Technical Notes: check also tags HUMANS & INFANT, NEWBORN; DF: ICU NEONATAL