Twenty-eight of 56 infants in a neonatal intensive care unit had stools positive for adenovirus by the Sure-Vue adenovirus test. Virus cultures of conventionally processed and chloroform-extracted stool samples, as well as conventional and real-time PCR tests, were negative for adenovirus. The cause for the 50% false-positive rate with the antigen test was not determined.

We describe a case of an infant born at 39 weeks of gestation who was in the neonatal intensive care unit for postoperative management of congenital heart disease and underwent bedside ultrasound-guided percutaneous cystostomy to treat an iatrogenic urethral injury. The procedure was uneventful, successful, and no complications were noted. This case demonstrates that this procedure is safe and ...

Use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the neonatal intensive care unit has been increasing over the past several years because of improved MRI technology and increased clinical awareness of the prognostic and diagnostic information available. Historically, the use of sedation has been the standard for achieving quality imaging without motion artifact, but it exposed the patient to risks as...

OBJECTIVE To compare a clinical nurse specialist/neonatal practitioner (CNS/NP) team with a pediatric resident team in the delivery of neonatal intensive care. DESIGN Randomized, controlled trial. SETTING A 33-bed tertiary-level neonatal intensive care unit. PATIENTS Of 821 infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit between September 1991 and September 1992, 414 were randomized ...

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...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether analgesic use for painful procedures performed in neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) differs during nights and days and during each of the 6 h period of the day. DESIGN Conducted as part of the prospective observational Epidemiology of Painful Procedures in Neonates study which was designed to collect in real time and around-the-clock bedside da...

Functional echocardiography has become an invaluable tool in the pediatric and neonatal intensive care unit. "Point-of-care," "target," or "focus" echocardiography allows bedside cardiac ultrasound evaluation of the hemodynamic status of the patient, helps in directing treatment, thus improves patients care. In order to be able to perform functional echocardiography, it is essential to understa...

PROBLEM Ten percent of infants born will require admission to a neonatal facility. Coordinated activity to monitor and improve the quality of care for this high risk, high cost group of infants is considered a high priority. At the time of initiation of this project no system for collection and analysis of neonatal data existed in Northern Ireland. DESIGN In 1994 an ongoing prospective centra...

Neonatal electroencephalography (EEG) presents a challenge due to its difficult interpretation that differs significantly from interpretation in older children and adolescents. Also, from the technological point of view, it is more difficult to perform and is not a standard procedure in all neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). During recent years, long-term cerebral function monitoring by the...

More than 9 million neonatal deaths are reported through out the world each year happening in the early weeks of life most of which relate to developing countries. Thus it is very important to present a better way to keep the infants healthy which could be possible by accessing accurate information at any time required during hospitalization of infants. Therefore the required data should be col...