Early Therapy Services Following Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge

Antimicrobial therapy in neonatal intensive care unit

Severe infections represent the main cause of neonatal mortality accounting for more than one million neonatal deaths worldwide every year. Antibiotics are the most commonly prescribed medications in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and in industrialized countries about 1% of neonates are exposed to antibiotic therapy. Sepsis has often nonspecific signs and symptoms and empiric antimicrobi...

Discharge planning in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Mothers' Challenges after Infants' Discharge from Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study

ABSTRACTBackground: Mothers with premature infants face certain challenges such as uncertainty on how to deal with their infant's condition and care for it after discharge from neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).Methods: A qualitative design was used to explain mothers' challenges after their infant's discharge from NICUs in Isfahan, Iran, 2015. Purposive sampling was adopted to interview the ...

Estimating of Cost Price of Services at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by Activity-based Costing

Introduction: One of the objectives of each system is cost of management and costing to help the organizations to provide high quality goods and services at a competitive environment. The present study was done to computing of cost price of hospital services at the NICU section of according to activity-based costing (ABC) method. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. The costing of hospital...

Early Intervention for Premature Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Each year, 14.9 million children are born prematurely all over the world. Preterm infants are at greater risk of mortality, morbidity, and lifespan sequelae. Early intervention in neonatal intensive care units is applied in order to minimize short-term and long-term consequences of prematurity. The aim of this article is to illustrate early intervention for children born prematurely in neonatal...