Neonatal Nursing & Family-Centered Care

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This article in NY Times came on my radar, written by a parent whom is also an obstetrician. Very well written piece and I would really recommend it. Sparkles a lot of thoughts on what we do, what we achieve, and the parental perspective. Find the article here: https://parenting.nytimes.com/newborn/prematurity-baby-burden

Good afternoon, a cordial greeting to all. I would like to ask if anyone knows of any application to calculate the humidity of neonatal closed incubators that runs on an android or windows operating system. The one we know of is from Dräger and runs only on the iOS operating system. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Fernando Agama C. Unidad de Neonatología Hospital General Enrique Garcés Quito-Ecuador

We recently had unpreprared 23+6 twins who suffered severe skin lesions due to electrode pads. We had to completly remove those for few days. They also had skin burns from antiseptic chlorexhidine prep (which is unfortunatly well known). What are your protocol or tips for managing skin care of the extremly preterm infant? Thank you in advance

Greetings everyone Do you draw blood samples from PICC line?

Hi, this message has reached me recently and I thought it would be great to share it also with the 99nicu community "We would like to promote an important survey about Patient and Family Center Care during the COVID-19 crisis developed by California Preterm Birth Initiative. The purpose of the survey is to gather information about changes to policies and practice due to COVID-19 and how hospitals are engaging patient and family advisors in planning and implementing changes. The following people are eligible to answer the survey: Hospital Administrator Patient Care Unit Leader Direct Patient Care Provider Patient- and family-centered care Coordinator/D…

Quick question- what are the rules right now in your NICU? Are the parents (asymptomatic) still allowed to visit/stay with their baby during the hospitalization in the unit? Share your thoughts and practices!

Dear collagues In our nursery we use BabyFlow from Dräger to provide NIV via VN500. We are planning to introduce the Seattle-PAP system (a bubble CPAP system) from Dräger to deliver nCPAP. Previously we have used beneveniste-CPAP. So moving to BabyFlow is quite a big step as the headgear and interface is quite different and much more bulky compared to what we have used for many years. Is there anyone out there using BabyFlow who would be willing to share experience? Our nurses are working hard to get used to the nasal interface and fixation system and especially when using bubbleCPAP we have lots of difficulties with leakage. many thanks in ad…

Who is working with the interfaces for CPAP of STEFAN? Many users in Germany? NICU level 3? Although we are working with the Flexitrunk and the VYGON at two different locations, we might be looking for a new system, hoping to find experience in this CPAP interface. https://www.stephan-gmbh.com/en/products/easyflow-ncpap/

Hi all, I'm very interested in the role rectal manipulations like rectal thermometry and the use of rectal tubes play in the development of constipation and NEC in the preterm infant. Would you like to share your protocols/guidelines/experiences with me? Do you use rectal thermometers in daily care? Do you use rectal tubes in daily care for air/stool relieve in (extreme) preterm infants? Do you experience constipation in the preterms? Thank you for sharing!