Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care

Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions

Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...

[Central venous catheterization in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units].

This descriptive, prospective cohort study aimed to analyze the process of central venous catheterization in neonatal intensive care and pediatric units; describe the variables related to study characterization, including admission unit, age, and sex; and to investigate related variables, such as catheter type, reason for insertion, number of lumens, insertion site, type of professional who per...

In-hospital Outcome and Main Determinants of Candida Septicemia in Children Admitted to Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units

Background and Objective: Identifying main risk profile of candidiasis in children provides favorable condition to effectively deal with disease and to prevent its complications. The present study aimed to determine main risk factors for candida septicemia in children admitted to a referral center for infectious diseases in children. Methods: This case-control study was performed on 48 consec...

Determination of Noise Level and Its Sources in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Neonatal Ward

Background: In Neonatal intensive care units (NICU) different sound intensities and frequencies are produced from different sources, which may exert undesirable physiological effects on the infants. The aim of this study was to determine the noise level and its sources in the NICU and neonatal ward of Al-Zahra Hospital of Rasht, Iran. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, the inte...

Neonatal intensive care and stress.