Certain features peculiar to premature babies appear to justify the routine use of oxygen. Cyanotic attacks are frequent, an irregular respiratory rhythm is common, and in the smaller infants the pulmonary alveoli are incompletely developed and present a thicker barrier than normal between the alveolar air and the blood stream. Graham, Reardon, Wilson, Tsao and Baumann (1950) and Wilson, Long a...

Because of their exceedingly high rate of growth, premature infants have very high needs for all nutrients. Requirements have been estimated by the factorial method based on the body composition of the fetus. Failure to meet the high requirements for protein impairs growth and places the infant at risk of neurodevelopmental impairments. Human milk, the preferred feeding for premature infants be...

Introduction Paediatric literature contains many brief references to the occurrence of neonatal tetany. Clinical signs developed in the first week of life in only a small proportion of the recorded cases. The number of infants reported as showing signs of hypocalcaemic tetany within a few hours of birth is extremely small. Willi (1939) described eight and Bakwin (1937) four babies in whom tetan...

The project “Humanization: support, entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment group for parents of premature babies'' developed by teachers students psychology phonoaudiology graduations courses Midwestern Paraná State University (UNICENTRO), with the aim providing embracing space, active listening, leisure time opportunities to women mothers accompanying their hospitalized babies in NICU. main ...

Of 164 consecutive newborns seen in consultations, three babies had either a preretinal or a vitreous hemorrhage, a rare occurrence. Two of these babies had a mild form of disseminated intravascular coagulation. The hemorrhages cleared within a few months after birth. Each of the three babies was premature, had a respiratory distress syndrome, and was born to a primiparous mother. The possibil...