Objective: The admission of full-term neonates in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is not an uncommon occurrence. All newborns admitted to the NICU attain benefits, such as highly specialized care, but there are also associated risks and high cost. This study aimed at identifying the patterns of full-term neonatal admissions at the NICU.Meth...
Published in Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics
Purpose Discharge against medical advice (DAMA), leave against medical advice (LAMA), and self discharge have been used in similar circumstances to mean abandoning the physician’s advice and deciding to leave the hospital abruptly without caring about possible outcomes. It is a sensitive issue common in NICUs across the developing world. To decreas...
Published in Journal of tropical pediatrics
The aim of our study was to determine the factors associated with mortality in neonates with carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP). This retrospective, single-center study was conducted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Harran University Faculty of Medicine between January 2017 and July 2018 who had CRKP growth in their blood, urin...
Published in Journal of neonatal nursing : JNN
Neonatal ICU (NICU) hospitalizations provide opportunities to engage individuals/families who smoke with evidence-based cessation treatments to protect infants from tobacco smoke exposure. The aim of this pilot study was to establish the feasibility and potential efficacy of providing motivational advice and NRT (MA+NRT) to families of NICU infants...
Published in Journal of medical imaging and radiation sciences
Arm malposition in neonatal ICU radiographs may result in overlap of the arm soft tissues and chest wall giving the appearance of lamellar effusions. We aimed to determine the frequency of arm malposition on portable neonatal/infant intensive care unit (N/IICU) chest radiographs and the proportion of these mimicking lamellar effusions. We evaluated...
Published in Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene
To evaluate the aetiology of neonatal invasive diseases (positive cultures from blood or cerebrospinal fluid, CSF) due to bacteria other than coagulase-negative staphylococci in a large tertiary care centre and compare with results of surveillance cultures. Retrospective analysis of microbiological data of children admitted in neonatal intensive ca...
Published in Developmental psychobiology
Preterm infants often spend a significant amount of time in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) where they are exposed to many stressors including pain and reduced maternal care. These early-life stressful experiences can have negative consequences on brain maturation during the neonatal period; however, less is known about the long-term cognit...
Published in Early human development
The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of a visual noise feedback system and "quiet time" in reducing noise levels in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). A prospective cross-sectional study was performed in a combined level II/III NICU at a Canadian tertiary care hospital. Noise levels were recorded continuously for three weeks witho...
Published in Emerging Microbes & Infections
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating intestinal inflammatory disease of premature infants associated with gut bacterial dysbiosis. Using 16S rRNA-based methods, our laboratory identified an unclassified Enterobacteriaceae sequence (NEC_unk_OTU) with high abundance in NEC fecal samples. We aimed to identify this bacterium and determine i...
Background:Many parents develop stress-related symptoms and depression when their preterm infant is hospitalised in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) after birth. We reviewed the evidence of parent well-being with preterm infants hospitalised in single family rooms (SFRs) or in open bay neonatal units (OBUs). Methods:For this systematic revie...
