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Filter by:The goal of this observational study is to assess infant and young child-feeding practices among women living in urban areas and slums in Pune and rural areas around Pune, India, and to investigate the reasons for the adopted infant and young child-feeding practices in Slum-dwelling women aged 18 to 49 years who have an infant/s less than 24 months of age. The main question it aims to answer are: - Are infant and young child-feeding practices among women living in urban areas and slums appropriate? - What the reasons for the adopted infant and young child-feeding practices in Slum-dwelling women Participants will be measured for their height and weight, interviewed for Socio-demographic characteristics, birth history of the infant, infant feeding indicators and will be involved in focused group discussions and in-depth interviews to gain understanding into their adopted appropriate and inappropriate feeding practices.
1 in 7 babies require neonatal care. During their time in hospital their vital signs (such as heart rate, breathing rate and oxygen saturation) are continuously monitored as part of standard care. Many factors lead to changes in vital signs, for example, medical procedures such as blood tests can result in brief increases in heart rate. Medication can also alter vital signs, either as an intended effect or as a side effect. However, different infants will respond in different ways to both procedures and medication. Predicting how an individual infant may respond could lead to better individualised care for infants. For example, using an infant's baseline vital signs to predict whether they will experience cardiorespiratory side effects from a particular drug could mean that doctors could choose an alternative safer treatment plan. To develop these predictive models, it is essential to first better understand how infants' vital signs are affected by different procedures and drugs, and how these effects are impacted by other factors such as infection, other pathologies, interaction between drugs and age. Despite their routine use in hospital neonatal units, detailed electronic records of vital signs are often not recorded. Often, only major events or average values are stated on clinical records. Subtle changes in vital signs are therefore missed, and more complex analysis that may reveal important predictive features within the data is not possible. In this study the investigators will electronically record infant vital signs across longer time periods and during a variety of clinically-necessary procedures and administration of drugs, to explore how these impact vital signs and are altered by factors such as age and pathology. These will be compared with control procedures, such as a nappy change, or when the infant is resting in their cot or receiving skin-to-skin care.
The purpose of the study is to assess the impact of a personalized intubation planning tool, the Personalized INtubation Safety (PINS) Bundle on intubation procedural safety and clinical outcomes among patients intubated in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) setting.
Today mother and infant are routinely separated directly after birth if there is a need of specialised treatment and care, despite of the significant and positive effects of skin-to-skin contact. Thus, there is a need of change in organizing the treatment and care in a way that minimizes separation. The aim is to evaluate the implementation and effect of a complex family-centred intervention based 107 on zero separation and couplet care. The intervention is rooted in the philosophy of family-centred care. Essentially, mother infant dyads will be admitted together, where they will receive couplet care by neonatal nurses. The study comprises a quasi-experimental trial and a qualitative process evaluation including a field study and two interview studies. Finally, a health economic evaluation will be conducted to assess the cost-effectiveness of this complex intervention. The intervention will take place at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Hvidovre Hospital. The nurses will as a part of the intervention be educated to take care of both mother and infant and carry out the intervention. Five families with experiences from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Maternity Unit participates as patient and public representative in the project, as their experiences and ideas will provide an added value to the project. This study contribute with a new perspective on how to organize the treatment and care of a newborn family in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The study will be the first to examine zero separation and couplet care within sick mother-infant dyads. The study will provide knowledge about how an intervention consisting of zero separation and couplet care can be feasible and acceptable, and what kind of effect and impact it will provide. It is expected that the study as a whole may impact and profile clinical nursing, as well as benefitting public health.
This study is a prospective, single center and observational open clinical study.
The main objective is to determine the short-term effect of prone positioning in infants with infection-associated severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. The investigators compare oxygenation parameters and measurements from electrical impedance tomography (EIT) and lung ultrasonography (LUS) in mechanically ventilated infants in prone position versus supine position after surfactant administration.
The aim of this randomized controlled study with crossover design is to examine the effectiveness of mother-driven interventions, skin-to-skin contact (SSC) and recorded mother's heartbeats as sound and vibration (MHB), compared to oral glucose in relieving neonatal acute pain related to heel lance as a painful procedure. The effectiveness of interventions will be assessed using validated pain scales (PIPP-R and NIAPAS), changes in sensory cortex activation (near-infrared spectroscopy, NIRS) and changes in physiological indicators (oxygen saturation, heart rate, respiratory rate). The secondary objectives will include evaluating the effectiveness of interventions in relation to infant recovery and evaluating the use of NIRS monitoring in relation to neonatal pain assessment scales.
- Spinal anesthesia in newborns is one of " Gold standard " techniques in short subumbilical surgeries (less than 30 minutes) with advantage of avoiding the risks inherent to general anesthesia. - Spinal anesthesia of the newborn remains a complex technical procedure with a failure rate of up to 16%. The child's movements and certain degrees of discomfort may also interfere with the successful completion of the procedure. - The second major issue of spinal anesthesia is the limitation of the motor block duration and the need for general anesthesia to complete the surgery - Spinal anesthesia duration can be prolonged by the addition of differents adjuvant such as opioid or alpha 2 adrenergic agonist. - Since 2018, dexmedetomidine, an alpha 2 adrenergic agonist with sedative, analgesic and anxiolytic properties, is being used as a current and standard practice in our anesthesia department. Intravenous administrationis performed ten to twenty minutes before spinal anesthesia placement in all children weighing less than 7 kg undergoing an infra-umbilical surgery of expected duration of less than 1 hour. This strategy ensures the child's comfort and allows the procedure to be performed under optimal conditions for practitionner. - The objective of this study is to review our practices and to evaluate the impact of the use of dexmedetomidine during spinal anesthesia of newborns and infants.
Primary objective: To determine if placing preterm infants in a polyethylene bag (PB) immediately after birth, before the umbilical cord is clamped, will increase the number of preterm infants with a normal temperature on admission to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
This randomized, multi-center, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study is designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of milrinone compared with placebo in participants after corrective surgery for congenital heart disease. Participants will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio within 90 minutes after arriving in the intensive care unit (ICU), to receive either intravenous milrinone or placebo for 36 hours. Participants will be stratified according Vasoactive Inotrope Score after arriving in the ICU.