Safety in Incubators: A Hazard Now Corrected

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-165
Author(s):  
Margery Franklin ◽  
Ruth M. Heyn ◽  
Dietric W. Roloff
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Potential Hazard ◽  
Care Model ◽  
Change Position

A recent experience made us aware of a potential hazard from equipment used in the care of newborn infants. A newborn boy who weighed 1,585 gm after 36 weeks' gestation and thus was small for date, was cared for in an Air-Shields C-86 Isolette, Intensive Care Model. He became very active and was able to change position inside the incubator. On several occasions he was seen with his head or feet pressed against the sides of the incubator.

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

A method for measurement of oxygen uptake in neonates

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 1200-1204 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. B. Raemer ◽  
D. R. Westenskow ◽  
D. K. Gehmlich ◽  
C. P. Richardson ◽  
W. S. Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Oxygen Uptake ◽  
Positive Airway Pressure ◽  
Animal Experiments ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Positive End Expiratory Pressure ◽  
Newborn Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Newborn Intensive Care

The frequent use of continuous positive airway pressure and positive end-expiratory pressure in newborn infants with pulmonary disease has prevented the use of conventional methods for measuring oxygen uptake (VO2) in intensive-care units. A feed-back replenishment technique for the determination of the oxygen uptake of these newborn infants has been developed. An instrument utilizing this method has been designed and built permitting continuous VO2 monitoring without interfering in the routine ventilatory therapy of the critically ill infant. Theoretical, bench, and animal experiments using room air as an inspired gas indicate instrument accuracies as a percentage of full scale of 2.4, 2.8, and 7.3, respectively. Preliminary trials on infants demonstrate that the instrument functions satisfactorily in the newborn intensive-care unit.

PORCINE INTENSIVE CARE MODEL

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. A42
Author(s):  
Sandra K Hanneman
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Care Model

THIS IS NOT HUMANE!

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. A72-A72
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Premature Infants ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Chest Tubes

. . .many newborn infants do not receive the same consideration that older children or adults receive in an intensive care unit. Many premature infants are subjected to hundreds of heels or finger punctures, have chest tubes inserted and removed, have catheters sutured to their umbilical stump, and undergo intubation, all without receiving any analgesic or sedative. This is not humane and may even be unsafe.

Shiva’s Babies

2019 ◽  
pp. 124-141
Author(s):  
Swasti Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Religious Perspectives

Discussing religious views from within any tradition is challenging because they are not monolithic. However, it is worth exploring religious perspectives because they are often the foundation, whether conscious or not, of the reasoning underlying people’s decisions. Following a brief discussion on the importance of cultural humility and understanding the worldview of patients, the author focuses on Hindu perspectives regarding the care of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. Along with applying six elements of Hindu thought (underlying unity of all life, multivalent nature of Hindu traditions, dharma, emphasis on societal good, karma, and ahimsa), the author incorporates perspectives of Hindu adults, living in the United States, who responded to a nationwide survey regarding the care of high-risk newborn infants in the hospital.

Quality of Neonatal Intensive Care and Outcome for High Risk Newborn Infants

Neonatology ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 136-144
Author(s):  
Liz McKechnie ◽  
Kathryn Johnson ◽  
Malcolm Levene
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Newborn Infants

scholarly journals Continued Enteral Feeding Is Beneficial in Hypoglycemic Infants Admitted to Intensive Care for Parenteral Dextrose Therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 2333794X1985741
Author(s):  
Mahdi Alsaleem ◽  
Lina Saadeh ◽  
Vasantha H. S. Kumar ◽  
Gregory E. Wilding ◽  
Lorin Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Glucose Infusion ◽  
Infusion Therapy ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Neonatal Hypoglycemia ◽  
Lower Maximum ◽  
Length Of Hospitalization

There is variability in practice among care providers on feeding infants admitted with neonatal hypoglycemia (NH) for parenteral dextrose. We compared clinical outcomes in infants who were fed (NH-Fed) and hypoglycemic infants who were kept nothing per os (NPO) (NH-NPO) at the time of initiation of intravenous (IV) dextrose. We performed a retrospective review of all newborn infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit with NH for IV dextrose. Infants were grouped as per the feeding approach at initiation of IV dextrose: NH-Fed or NH-NPO infants. We found that infants in the NH-Fed group had lower maximum glucose infusion rate, less duration of glucose infusion therapy compared with the NH-NPO group, and significantly less number of days of hospital stay compared with the NH-NPO group (5.87 ± 1.4 days vs 4.9 ± 1.4 days, P < .006). In conclusion, feeding infants with hypoglycemia who require IV dextrose offers tangible benefits of shorter duration of parenteral dextrose and shorter length of hospitalization.

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