Newborn Nursery Teaching Attending Guide: Module 2. Newborn Physical Examination

Bedside Infant Manikins for Teaching Newborn Examination to Medical Undergraduates.

OBJECTIVE To study whether using infant manikins during clinical posting could help in teaching newborn examination to undergraduate medical students. METHODS 111 final MBBS students were taught newborn examination either by the new method which included practice on infant manikins at the bedside before examining babies (Group 1) or by the traditional method which involved directly examining ...

Electrical hazards in the newborn nursery.

Newborn neurologic examination.

This is the first article in a series describing the essentials of the pediatric neurologic examination. The series will address the neurologic examination at different developmental stages from the neonate to the teenage years. The goals of the article are to 1) describe the newborn examination and 2) briefly describe the most common neurologic problems seen in the newborn population. One of t...

Common hematologic problems in the newborn nursery.

"Common red blood cell disorders encountered in the normal newborn nursery include hemolytic disease of the newborn and resultant hyperbilirubinemia, anemia, and polycythemia. A less frequent clinically relevant hematologic issue in newborns to be covered herein is thrombocytopenia."

Examination of the Newborn: An Evidence-Based Guide Lomax Anne Examination of the Newborn: An Evidence-Based Guide 272pp £27.99 Wiley Blackwell 9781444341904 1118913191 [Formula: see text].

THIS COMPREHENSIVE and practical guide will be an invaluable aid to students and advanced practitioners, as well as those involved in neonatal and midwifery care in hospitals or community settings.