Lessons from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): What can very premature babies teach us about working with primitively organized adult patients?

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Premature Babies

Letter to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 1025-1026
Author(s):  
Helen Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
Premature Babies ◽  
Support Organizations ◽  
Family Centered

The parents who drafted "The Principles For Family-Centered Neonatal Care"1 have all spent considerable time in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Most of us are parents of two or more premature babies. We are familiar with NICU families of all backgrounds through our work in support organizations, disability rights groups, and ethics committees. Our university educations may have made us better able to understand and articulate the issues, but they did not significantly alter our experience in the NICU.

scholarly journals Too Expensive to Treat? Non-Treatment Decisions at the Margins of Viability

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-481
Author(s):  
Tatiana Flessas ◽  
Emily Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Premature Infant ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Treatment Decisions ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
The State ◽  
Premature Babies

Abstract This article seeks to challenge the assumption that it is legitimate to consider the costs of premature babies’ future social and educational needs when deciding what treatment, if any, to provide in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) . It questions the elision that is made between the claim that a particular treatment is insufficiently cost-effective and the claim that a person will be a burden on the state in the future. It discusses a series of common misunderstandings about how treatment decisions are taken in the NICU and concludes by suggesting that the claim that premature babies are too expensive to treat may depend upon regarding a premature infant as if she were not yet a person, with rights and interests of her own.

scholarly journals Mothers' feelings about breastfeeding their premature babies in a rooming-in facility

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 713-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rejane Marie Barbosa Davim ◽  
Bertha Cruz Enders ◽  
Richardson Augusto Rosendo da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Maternity Hospital ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Premature Babies

This study aimed at learning about the feelings experienced by mothers while breastfeeding their premature babies in a rooming-in facility, by means of individual interviews with 33 mothers during the period of February to April 2006, at a maternity hospital in Natal/RN/Brazil. The main feelings referred by the mothers regarding their inability to breastfeed their premature babies immediately after delivery were: sorrow, guilt, disappointment, frustration, insecurity, and fear of touching, holding or harming the delicate babies while breastfeeding. However, the mother-child bond that was formed when the baby was discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and taken to the rooming-in facility was reflected by feelings of fulfillment, pride, and satisfaction at experiencing the first breastfeeding.

Pastoral Care of the Premature Baby

1997 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Terry A. Purvis-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Premature Baby ◽  
Premature Babies ◽  
Pastoral Communication

A chaplain shares his learning in his attempts to deliver meaningful pastoral care to premature babies in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a hospital. Explicates some of the parallels between pastoral communication with adults and with babies, noting especially the necessity of recognizing the need for creative modification of adult modes of care.

Prevalence and Associated Factors to Depression and Anxiety in Women with Premature Babies Hospitalized in a Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit in a Mexican Population

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. e53-e56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián González-Hernández ◽  
Diana González-Hernandez ◽  
Carlos Mario Fortuny-Falconi ◽  
Carlos Alfonso Tovilla-Zárate ◽  
Ana Fresan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Mexican Population ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Premature Babies
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