Education, Organisation & Evaluation

Dear Colleagues, Its a common problem in NICU that due to hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia, we have to either discard the TPN or change the IVF mix. Its a huge loss to the hospitals. I made few formulas to change the dextrosity which I want to share with all of you. Send me mail so that I can send directly to you. manoj_potdar@yahoo.co.in

In many neonatal nursery IVF mix is made by adding sterile water and D 50%. Which is more costlier. We can make IVF mix by D10 and D50%. Formula-- General formula for any two solutions with different dextrosity= Total volume required= TV ml of solution containing higher dextrosity(HD%)= X ml ml of solution containing lower dextrosity(LD%)= TV- X ml Desired dextrosity= DD X ml = TV(DD-LD)/(HD-LD) ml of HD in TV ml of LD in TV = TV- X ml exp- Total volume required is 100 ml Desired dextrosity is 16% and we have D10 and D50% HD=50% LD= 10% ml of D 50 (X ml) = 100(DD-10)/(50-10) ml of D 50% ( X ml) =100(16-10)/40 ml …

I am writing a new policy for our unit regarding "Attendance of Neonatologist at Elective C Section ", IF any one can help me in making this policy or want to share your current hospital/unit policy regarding this issue, I will be greatful. Currently our practice is that we are attending all elective C Sections and the evidence is that a neonatologist need not to be present at the elective c section but can be approachable on contact. Thanks

This site: https://www.nicuniversity.org/ has some nice neonatology lectures. It is free to all. They expect a simple one time registration and then you can access all their contents. I found it most interesting.

There are some nice articles on neonatology topics in emedicine LINK Includes informative multimedia

I have other issue... i need to know in NICU officially and what is recommended for patient safety and resident well being would it be the working hours in the duty ...???? i mean how many hours duty and what about the off. ???

peace be upon you all.i'm preparing my paper in neonatology for my master.but i don't know the recent issues that i can suggest to my proffessor.can you help me .any suggestions?recent issues?thanks alot:confused::confused:

Do you grieve if you lose your patient unexpectantly? How do you manage to come out ? do you turn to religious texts, solitude, or others? please mention any reading materials also selvan

I got this link from a colleague in Tromso, Norway (that's far away in the North, even north of Sweden!) www.unn.no/barn/metodebok It's a complete manual of neonatal intensive care, available as a PDF document. If you're "Scandinavian" (i.e read Danish, Swedish or Norwegian of course ), this is a good source of information.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rrn/