background hyponatremia is a common disorder in patients with brain injury. it can result in acute and chronic complications providing this electrolytic disorder is not diagnosed and treated in due time. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of hyponatremia in 95 patients with brain injury hospitalized in the intensive care unit in shahid beheshti hospital of kashan un...

Background Advances in the perinatal and neonatal cares have brought about considerable reductions in the neonatal mortality. The present study aimedto determine the disease patterns, outcomes and factors influencing the neonatal mortality in single neonatal intensive care unit. Materials and Methods This descriptive research was retrospective and cross-sectional in type. The study population e...

Health care systems today are complex, technically proficient, competitive, and market-driven. One outcome of this environment is the recent phenomenon in the health care field of "consumerism." Strong emphasis is placed on customer service, with organized efforts to understand, measure, and meet the needs of customers served. The purpose of this article is to describe the current understanding...

From 1976 to 1980, 1034 children who had weighed less than 2001 g at birth were cared for at the North Western regional neonatal intensive care unit. Of these, 315 babies were neonatal referrals and 91 were born in the unit after antenatal transfer from their district hospital. Significantly fewer of the babies referred as neonates survived (n = 167, 53%) compared with 67 of the antenatal refer...

Neonatal hypotension remains one of the most commonly encountered problems in neonatal intensive care units. Pharmacologic agents used in the management of neonatal hypotension include volume expanders, inotropes and vasopressors. Hydrocortisone can be used in resistant cases. Hydrocortisone acts both via genomic (slow) and non-genomic (fast) effects, however it is not recommended for urgent co...

We present a case of Trichosporon asahii fatal infection recognized post mortem in a premature newborn baby of 685 g. Trichosporon asahii isolated from endovascular catheters and endotraqueal tube, is an opportunistic yeast described like an emergent pathogen in serious systemic infections and nosocomial infections in the neonatal intensive care units. The colonization and disease by this uncom...

Developmental care is the use of a range of medical and nursing interventions to decrease the stress of preterm neonates in neonatal intensive care units. This article reviews the theory underlying such interventions and research based data in different scientific fields, including neuroscience, developmental and family psychology, medicine, and nursing. The conclusion is that more research is ...

BACKGROUND Neonatal trials remain difficult to conduct for several reasons: in particular the need for study sites to have an existing infrastructure in place, with trained investigators and validated quality procedures to ensure good clinical, laboratory practices and a respect for high ethical standards. The objective of this work was to identify the major criteria considered necessary for se...