Planning the Discharge from Paediatric Intensive Care of a Child with Complex Care Needs

Home-based Care Needs of Preterm Infants Discharged Early from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Descriptive Qualitative Study

Background: Prematurity could result in the long admission of the neonate to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and development of some complications for both mother and newborn. The early discharge programs make the neonatal transference to home much easier and are beneficial to both parents and newborns. However,there are limited studies investigating the real needs of the preterm neonat...

Place of death and palliative care following discharge from paediatric intensive care units.

OBJECTIVE To determine where children die following discharge from paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in Great Britain and to investigate if this varies by discharge to palliative care. DESIGN National cohort of PICU admissions linked to Office of National Statistics death certificate data. SETTING 31 PICUs in Great Britain. PARTICIPANTS A cohort of 35 383 children admitted to PICUs ...

Family Needs of Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Units

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Discharge planning in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Paediatric care of the child with haemophilia.

The paediatric care of children with haemophilia in developed countries should focus on the health of the child, not on the disorder. Gene therapy offers the hope of an ultimate 'cure' for the disorder, but until this is a viable proposition, patients should be given more control over their treatment, and the focus should be on 'self-monitored and self-adjusted' prophylaxis. New instruments for...