Neonatal care – normal mothering or medical intervention?

Effect of Family-centered Intervention in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit on Anxiety of Parents

Background Birth of a premature infant and hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a stressful phenomenon and lead to parents’ anxiety. In such situation, fathers have important role to reduce mothers’ anxiety. This study aimed to investigate the effect of family-centered intervention in the NICU on the anxiety of parents. Materials and Methods In this clinical trial, 60 ...

Medical Care—More or Less?

Edward Long Fox, B.A., D.M., F.R.C.P. was born in 1832 in Brislington. His father was a doctor, and both his uncle Henry Hawes Fox, and grandfather, Edward Long Fox, had been physicians to the Bristol Royal 'nfirmary. His grandfather founded an asylum in Brislington and was interested in mesmerism, but also achieved fame by having 22 children! With this background you will not be entirely surpr...

Intervention or interference? The need for expectant care throughout normal labour.

BACKGROUND Medico-technical intervention rates in labour, such as induction and augmentation of labour, are rising worldwide. Such interventions have adverse as well as beneficial consequences, so any intervention introduced must be based on evidence and result in more good than harm, otherwise it is just interference. AIM To describe three common medico-technical interventions in normal preg...

Surrogate mothering: medical reality in a legal vacuum.

Music therapy intervention in the neonatal intensive care unit environment.

vianna et al.1, em seu ensaio clínico controlado, randomizado e aberto, utilizaram dois musicoterapeutas para trabalhar sistematicamente com mães de lactentes prétermo na unidade de terapia intensiva neonatal (UTIN) de sua instituição. As sessões eram realizadas três vezes por semana, tinham 1 hora de duração e compreendiam quatro movimentos: expressão verbal, expressão musical, canções de nina...