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Articles and journal scans about Neonatology
Article
January 2007
Sleep like a baby?
Where do you go for help, when you are a parent of a child who stops breathing while it sleeps? If you live in the south of Sweden, you go to Halmstad County Hospital, where a team of specialists are ready to monitor your sleeping child by polysomnography (PSG).
The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Halmstad has ...
Neonatology
Blood gases/acid-base
Glucose
Journal Scan
October 2006
Oxygen saturation immediately after birth
Pulse oximetry provides the means for continuous non-invasive
monitoring of oxygen saturation (SpO2). Although not
currently used for the purpose, recent international guidelines
suggest that pulse oximetry may be useful in the assessment of
newborns who require urgent resuscitative measures at the time of
birth....
Blood gases/acid-base
Neonatology
Journal Scan
October 2006
Neonatal hypoglycemia
Reduced blood glucose (hypoglycemia) is one of the more common
metabolic emergencies during the neonatal period, which in a small
minority of cases results in permanent brain damage. It remains
unclear how low blood glucose concentration must fall for such
devastating effect. This gray area of understanding is...
Glucose
Neonatology
Article
October 2006
Taking the myth out of capillary sampling
Hospital do Coração (HCor) in São Paolo, Brazil is a hospital for cardiac patients, many of whom are children and newborns.
Cardiac patients are closely monitored with respect to acid base and blood gases, and even the newborns have several arterial and venous blood samples drawn daily.
Dr Alberto Duarte from the...
Neonatology
Preanalytical phase
Blood gases/acid-base
Journal Scan
July 2006
Clinical consequences of severe hyperbilirubinemia
Raised serum bilirubin (hyperbilirubinemia) and consequent
jaundice is common during the neonatal period; around half of all
newborns become temporarily jaundiced during the first week or two
of life. For the vast majority, serum bilirubin peaks no higher
than around 250 µmol/L (14.6mg/dL) and jaundice quickly...
Neonatology
Article
July 2006
Intrapartum asphyxia
In Geneva in 1821, a French nobleman Jacques Alexandre Le Jumeau, Vicomte de Kergaradec, became the pioneer of modern fetal monitoring. He described the sound of the fetal heartbeat, as he used the newly invented stethoscope (by Laennec, France 1819) and applied it to the abdominal wall of a pregnant woman [1].
The...
Blood gases/acid-base
Neonatology
Glucose
Lactate
Article
January 2006
Red-cell transfusion – risks and benefits - part 1 of 2
Although often of life-saving benefit, transfusion of
donated red cells is associated with considerable potential risk
for the recipient patient.
This article, directed at healthcare
professionals without any particular transfusion expertise,
outlines these risks and the measures taken to minimize them.
Particular...
Blood gases/acid-base
Preanalytical phase
Hemoglobins
Neonatology
Article
January 2006
Neonate capillary blood gas reference values
Reprinted with permission from Elsevier from "Neonate capillary blood gas reference values", by Jocelyne Cousineau, Suzanne Anctil, Ana Carceller, Monique Gonthier and Edgard E. Delvin, CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY, Vol no 38, 2005, pp 905-907. Copyright 2005 by Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists.
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Neonatology
Blood gases/acid-base
Glucose
Hemoglobins
Lactate
Kidneys/fluids
Article
January 2006
Neonatology - Get in control of fetal scalp blood sampling
Interview
Fetal scalp Blood Sampling (FBS) – not exactly wishful thinking for the mother, nor for the obstetrician? The procedure is regarded as cumbersome, the sample quality is questionable and the consequences of the result may be instrumental vaginal delivery or Cesarian Section (CS).
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Preanalytical phase
Blood gases/acid-base
Neonatology
Lactate
Journal Scan
October 2005
Acute renal failure – still a killer disease
Investment in medical research is expected to have a payback; we
assume that with the passage of time increased knowledge and
understanding of disease process will inevitably lead to improved
treatment and better outcome. This optimistic paradigm has proved
valid for some of the major killer diseases, including heart...
Neonatology