Biomedical subjects
K Hamelin
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Home phototherapy for uncomplicated neonatal jaundice.
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Interviewing mothers of high-risk infants. What are their support needs.
The survival of newborns with life-threatening illness has dramatically increased over the past 20 years. Improved obstetrical care, earlier maternal and infant transfer, advanced biomedical technology and improved neonatal intensive care have resulted in decreased mortality and morbidity in this high-risk group. But the need for comprehensive care of high-risk infants extends well beyond their stay in neonatal intensive care units. Infants requiring intensive care at birth are at risk for readmission to hospital and developmental or physical impairment during the early years of life. In addition, the stress of infant illness and caring for an infant with long-term medical or developmental needs can permanently change the family. Thus, the improved survival rate of high-risk newborns has rapidly expanded the support required to meet the complex, multiple and long-term needs of these infants and their families during and after hospitalization.
Premature infants and car seat safety.
Automobile accidents are one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in children. Indeed, the rate is increasing, even though most other causes of child death have decreased in the last five years. The misuse and non-use of child restraints are at the root of this problem.
Kangaroo care.
Kangaroo care is the practice of holding a small, premature infant, naked except for a diaper and hat, against a parent's chest. This skin-to-skin contact resembles how marsupials such as kangaroos and koalas care for their young. Initially established in overcrowded nurseries in developing countries as a substitute for incubators and monitors, kangaroo care is now practised in the neonatal intensive care units of developed countries.