Neonatal Intensive Care for Critical Cardiac Disease

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...

The Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool: A useful tool for pain assessment in intensive care units

Pain is a major concern in all intensive care units (ICUs). The proper assessment and management of pain is one of the main goals of patient care in ICUs. Improper evaluation of pain and its over or under treatment can cause significant problems in the process of patient management in ICU. Since most ICU patients are unable to communicate correctly with the ICU team and explain their level of p...

Dynamical Models for Neonatal Intensive Care Monitoring

The vital signs monitoring data of an infant receiving intensive care are a rich source of information about its health condition. One major concern about the state of health of such patients is the onset of neonatal sepsis, a life-threatening bloodstream infection. As early signs are subtle and current diagnosis procedures involve slow laboratory testing, sepsis detection based on the monitore...

Handbook of neonatal intensive care

For many years Hutchison's Clinical Methods has been one of the standard recommended textbooks for students of the Queen's University of Belfast Medical School. Sir Robert Hutchison wrote the major part of the original text at the age of twentyfive when he was resident in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, the remainder being supplied by Dr Harry Rainy, Tutor in Clinical Medicine, Edinburgh....

Neonatal intensive care and stress.