OBJECTIVE To assess the use of the Neonatal Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (NTISS) as a tool to quantify the use of technology in neonatal intensive care units, in order to detect discrepancies in the care provided to high-risk newborn infants. METHODS Prospective, descriptive, observational study about the use of technology in two neonatal intensive care units (one public and one pr...

OBJECTIVE To determine the noise levels of different areas responsible for newborn care, develop intervention strategies to decrease the noise, and evaluate its effectiveness. METHODS Prospective, observational and longitudinal study carried out using a sonometer, measuring sound levels for three weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), neonatal intermediate care unit (UCIREN), deliv...

The purpose of this paper was to carry out a review of literature on the history and current stage of the knowledge of systemic analgesia in neonatology and the factors influencing its use. A search for scientific articles was made in the MEDLINE, SciELO and LILACS databases using the keywords: analgesia, systemic analgesics, pain, neonatology, newborn, intensive care units and neonatal intensi...

overview of oral sucrose analgesia for infants. The administration of oral sucrose, with or without nonnutritive sucking (NNS), has been the most frequently studied nonpharmacological intervention for relief of procedural pain in neonates. Oral sucrose has a beneficial role in pain prevention and management for infants, including babies in the emergency department. Although most research on ora...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the impact of an empowerment program on maternal stress. MATERIALS AND METHODS During May 2009-May 2010, this quasi-experimental study was performed in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Shahid Akbarabadi, Rasoul-e-Akram, and Aliasghar Hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Iran). The program consists of an educational C...

Neonates and young infants are in a unique and dynamic pharmacokinetic state, in which they undergo relatively rapid maturational changes in drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion. In addition to these maturational changes, most drug pharmacokinetic studies in neonates show wide interindividual variability despite similar gestational and postnatal ages. Therapeutic drug monito...

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE to verify the positioning indications of newborn sand build a standard operating procedure protocol for newborn positioning in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). METHOD for protocol validation, the Delphi technique was used ,in which expert nurses in the field reviewed the proposed procedure. RESULTS we present the results of this validation in a protocol form, to contr...

It becomes clear that the assumption that no life is not worth saving must be evaluated in the context of competition for resources among various victimsnewborn infants and countless others. By arguing in the abstract, without consideration of these social and economic realities, the authors of these essays arrive at conclusions which have no practical value. The effort to save every handicappe...

Parents with neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) experience different needs at different stages of their neonates' stay in the NICU. The needs of parents with neonates in NICU's play an important role in aspects such as the ability to cope with changing parental roles and emotions, the relationship between parent and infant and the managing of the parents' own needs. The aim of ...

OBJECTIVE To study the arrival pattern and length of stay (LoS) in a neonatal intensive care/high dependency unit (NICU/HDU) and special care baby unit (SCBU) and the impact of capacity shortage in a perinatal network centre, and to provide an analytical model for improving capacity planning. METHODS The data used in this study have been collected through the South England Neonatal Database (...