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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"PREMATURE INFANT"”.
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Premature infant responses to taped maternal voice
Premature infants are at risk for many potential problems including deficits in social interaction and sensory perception skills. One of the major reasons for this is the relative social isolation of these infants housed in incubators and separated from parents. There is a need to identify social …
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Automated partial premature infant pain profile scoring using big data analytics
… to automate a partial pain score for newborn infants using big data analytics that automates the analysis of high speed physiological data. The design of the novel Artemis Premature Infant Pain Profile (APIPP) is proposed in this thesis. An ethically approved retrospective clinical research …
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Using trauma as a lens to explore the experience of mothering a very premature infant in the first year after hospital discharge
Approximately 60,000 premature babies are born in England every year (Office of National Statistics ONS, 2017). Survival rates of babies weighing 800g and over have risen to 90% (WHO, 2018) resulting in an increasing number of mothers parenting very premature babies. Understanding the experiences …
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Stress and coping of parents of hospitalized premature infants
… associated with having a low birthweight, premature infant hospitalized in a newborn intensive care unit (NICU). From this list of stressors, parents chose the most stressful, rated the extent to which they felt they had control, reported what they did to cope, and completed the Ways of …
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Stress Experiences of Parents with Premature Infants in a Special Care Nursery
… study of stress experiences of parents with premature infants born from 30-35 weeks gestation being cared for in a tertiary special care nursery (SCN). Sixty mothers and 59 fathers of premature infants and 60 mothers and fathers of term infants were recruited into the study. A range of …
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The information and support needs of primary caregivers of premature and/or medically complex infants upon discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit.
… the perceptions of primary caregivers of premature and/or medically complex infants regarding information received prior to discharge from hospital and information and support needs four weeks after discharge from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Design. Non-experimental descriptive …
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Nonelectric, standalone heating element for an infant incubator
… world. It aims to reduce the instances of premature infant death in the developing world, specifically targeting places where household electricity is uncommon. Thus, Anya requires a nonelectric heating method. Paraffin wax, a phase change material with high latent heat storage, was …
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The relationship between zinc and protein in pregnant women
… lowest zinc plasma level in the group also had a premature infant.
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Becoming a parent to an infant requiring neonatal intensive care
… and parents who have a baby who is born sick or prematurely find themselves adapting to this stressful and often unexpected event whilst also trying to establish their role as a new parent. With no current large British studies, this study explores the experiences of both mothers and fathers in …
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Differential Neonatal Mortality of Premature Infants at a Selected Hospital
… toward an investigation of neonatal mortality of premature infant at a selected hospital. The sample included all premature infants who were born in and died at the selected hospital during the neonatal period between January 01, 1952 and December 31, 1959.</p> <p>The epidemiological approach was …
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Exploration of the Linkage between the A:a gradient and oxygen transfer efficiency as a measure of response to treatment with inhaled nitric oxide in a heterogenous group of newborns treated for acute hypoxic respiratory failure
… whether gestational age is predictive of infants’ response to iNO therapy. \r\nA secondary data analysis was conducted on 74 infants who received a treatment protocol of iNO over a one-week period. A:a gradient measures were examined to determine the correlation prior to treatment for …
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Perinatal Hypoxia Exposure on the Developing Heart: The Role of Endothelin-1
… that often afflicts the fetus as well as the premature infant, and leads to the production of endothelin-1. Our study aims to test the hypothesis that perinatal hypoxia exposure induces a premature terminal differentiation of cardiomyocytes, focusing on the role of endothelin-1 and the …
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Detection, Identification and Classification of Suck, Swallow and Breathing Activity In Premature Infants During Bottle-Feeding
… delivery. Among all the problems encountered by premature infants, feeding difficulties are very common. Many premature infants are fed intravenously at first, and they progress to milk feedings provided by a tube passed into the stomach. At around 34 weeks of gestation, premature infants should …
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Lived realities of NICU-to-home transition in Malta: The experiences of parents of preterm infants, and of neonatal staff
Preterm birth and the premature infant have been predominately studied from clinical perspectives. The experiences of parenting a preterm child and the experiences of staff directly involved in the care of preterm infants have been studied much less. Additionally, less is known about the meaning of …
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Identification of Needs in High Risk Prematures Significant to Public Health Nursing Follow-Up
… the need for an intensive follow-up program for premature infants after discharge from the hospital and cited the important role that public nurses can play. It was hypothesized that there are needs of high risk premature infant significant to public health nursing follow-up.</p> <p>The …
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Antikörper-Entwicklung nach Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)-Infektion bei Frühgeborenen und Säuglingen
Das RS-Virus ist die Hauptursache für Erkrankungen des unteren Respirationstraktes bei Säuglingen und Kleinkindern. In einer prospektiv durchgeführten Studie im Winterhalbjahr 1994/95 wurden 29 nosokomial (Studie 1) und 35 extern (Studie 2) mit dem RS-Virus infizierte Kinder untersucht. Das …
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Identification of Needs in High Risk Prematures Significant to Public Health Nursing Follow-Up
… the needs for an intensive follow-up program for premature infants after discharge from the hospital and cited the important role that public health nurses can play. It was hypothesized that there are needs of the high risk premature infant significant to public health nursing follow-up.</p> …
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The Effects of Environmentally Induced Influences on the Neurologial Maturation and Weight Gain of Premature Infants
<p>Premature birth deprives the infant of the influences of maternal uterine stimulation on his physical growth and neurological development. It also deprives the newborn of the influences of the maternal sleep cycle and other aspects of maternal cyclicity. This problem has been recognized and …
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