BACTERIAL COLONIZATION OF NEWBORN INFANTS IN A NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

1982 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 779-783 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. ERIKSSON ◽  
B. MELÉN ◽  
K.-E. MYRBÄCK ◽  
B. WINBLADH ◽  
R. ZETTERSTRÖM
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Bacterial Colonization ◽  
Newborn Infants

Into the NICU

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-88
Author(s):  
Dána-Ain Davis
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
General Population ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Birth Outcomes ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Premature Births ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter offers ethnographic insight into the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), a space that is largely inaccessible to the general population. The chapter describes the physical space of the NICU. Parents reveal how they felt about having their newborn infants admitted to the NICU and the varying degrees of racism that saturated the experiences of some, but not all, parents. Most parents interpret their experience through the lens of medical racism. At the very least they understand that if it were not for a particular mediating factor, such as having a connection to the medical field, they likely would have been subjected to racist medical encounters. This chapter also examines how mostly white neonatologists respond to questions related to race and adverse birth outcomes and finds that, for most, class replaces race as the explanatory factor for understanding premature births.

scholarly journals Non-immune hydrops fetalis: Clinical experience in newborn infants

2011 ◽  
Vol 64 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 507-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Pejic ◽  
Borisav Jankovic ◽  
Zeljko Mikovic ◽  
Zorica Rakonjac ◽  
Jelena Martic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Hydrops Fetalis ◽  
Peritoneal Effusion ◽  
Mother And Child

Introduction. Non-immune hydrops fetalis is a condition of excessive accumulation of extravascular fluid without identifiable circulating antibody to erythrocytes membrane antigens. In newborn infants it is characterized by skin oedema and pleural, pericardial or peritoneal effusion. In the era of routine Rh immunization for the prevention of foetal erythroblastosis, non-immune pathophysiologic mechanisms are presented in 76-87% of all hydropic newborns. Non-immune hydrops fetalis can be associated with numerous and various disorders. The mortality rate may exceed 50%. This study was aimed at presenting our clinical experience in treating newborn infants with non-immune hydrops fetalis. Material and methods. A retrospective-prospective study included newborn infants with non-immune hydrops fetalis, who were treated in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Mother and Child Health Institute of Serbia between January 1, 2001 and October 31, 2010. All valid data about aetiology, diagnosis, clinical course and outcome were recorded. Results. The diagnosis of non-immune hydrops fetalis was made in 11 newborns. The etiologic diagnosis was established in 8 patients: anaemia due to fetomaternal transfusion in 4 patients and conatal cytomegalovirus infection, intracranial haemorrhage, isolated pulmonary lymphangiectasia and diffuse skin and mediastinal lymphangiomatosis in the remaining 4 patients. Conclusion. Non-immune hydrops of newborn infant is associated with a high mortality rate and requires complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. An optimal management of neonates with non-immune hydrops fetalis demands a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Pattern of bacterial colonization in a new neonatal intensive care unit and its association with infections in infants

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 512-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shantanu Rastogi ◽  
Rita Shah ◽  
Jason Perlman ◽  
Alok Bhutada ◽  
Susan Grossman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Bacterial Colonization

Body composition in newborn infants: 5-year experience in an Italian neonatal intensive care unit

2012 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. S13-S17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Lorella Giannì ◽  
Paola Roggero ◽  
Pasqua Piemontese ◽  
Anna Orsi ◽  
Orsola Amato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Body Composition ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Newborn Infants

NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION WITH ECHO VIRUS TYPE 31 IN A NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 995-999
Author(s):  
Louise L. McDonald ◽  
Joseph W. St. Geme ◽  
Barbara H. Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Virus Type ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Viral Disease ◽  
Echo Virus ◽  
Asymptomatic Infant ◽  
High Index Of Suspicion

During the summer of 1968 ECHO virus type 31 was isolated from four infants in a neonatal intensive care unit. The index case was admitted from home in a comatose state and harbored ECHO 31 in his throat. Necropsy findings were inconclusive, and no virus was recovered from neural tissues. After the admission of this patient, two infants in the unit developed apneic spells and ECHO 31 was isolated from their CSF, throat, and stool samples. The virus was also isolated from the stool of an asymptomatic infant. ECHO 31 had not been recovered in newborn infants prior to its isolation in these cases. The isolation techniques currently used in many neonatal units may be inadequate to prevent viral dissemination. It is important to maintain a high index of suspicion of neonatal viral disease since careful virologic study will clarify the ecology of these nosocomial infections.

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