Infant respiratory distress syndrome

With all of the advances that have been made in respiratory care, it leaves us with a number of different therapies and equipment available to suit the needs of patients from any age, disease, and demographic. Though these different options are accessible to most acute care hospitals, there is not enough education being done for the proper implementation of these resources or protocols to help drive them. In terms of neonatal non-invasive ventilation, there are several methods of helping…

Gestational Diabetes Molloy College Samantha Bishop and Morgan Woods Gestational Diabetes Gestational diabetes (GDM) is defined as glucose intolerance, by any degree, with its beginning or first recognition happening during pregnancy. GDM encompasses women who have had preexisting diabetes that had not been diagnosed until pregnancy and woman whose intolerance to glucose emerges during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes differs from type 1 or type 2 diabetes in women that get pregnant. The…

patients are first born. For example, only forward blood typing must be done for infants because they do not make antibodies until reaching four months of age. Similar to blood typing, different regulations are required when transfusing a pediatric patient. Although it is safe for any pediatric age to receive any type of blood component, it is necessary to first research the amount that should be given. When neonates or infants go through surgery such as cardiopulmonary bypass; a mixture of…

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) is a constellation of physiological signs and behaviors observed following in utero exposure to opiates (Backes et al. 2012). In laymen’s terms, NAS is a group of withdrawal symptoms newborns experience after birth due to drug exposure while inside mother’s uterus. I chose this topic because NAS has increased 300% among newborns since the 1980s (Backes et al. 2012). Mothers need to be aware of possible complications to their newborn if they are consuming…

Cerebral Palsy is a neurological disorder, caused by brain damage, which affects body movement and muscle coordination. “The brain damage is caused by brain injury or abnormal development of the brain that occurs while a child’s brain is still developing — before birth, during birth, or immediately after birth” (MyChild, 2016). No two cases of cerebral palsy are alike. Cerebral palsy is life altering and those diagnosed with this chronic disease have to learn to adapt in every different aspect…

hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) serotype [1]. In lung disease, IVI exacerbates asthma, acute lung injury and COPD pathogenesis and also triggers pulmonary fibrosis during the recovery phase [4]. Especially, IVI poses severe health problem to infants, elderly and immunocompromised people [5]. To prevent the influenza infection and pandemics,…

and continue to be causative agents in the increase rates of infant mortality in the African American community. I designed two frameworks; one is symbolic of an egg. It has several layers around the fetus to protect it and increase its chances of survival. It has been noted by Mac Dorman and Matthews in their article Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the United States Infant Mortality Rates states that the disparity of infant mortality amongst the minority populations in the U.S.…

to a 35 weeks neonate on a 12-hour shift. Aspects of this essay will critically discuss the management of a baby that I admitted into the High Dependency Unit (HDU) for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy as a result of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). In order to gain an understanding of this essay, the pathophysiology of RDS will be briefly discussed in addition to the effectiveness of CPAP on the outcome of the neonate. I will also discuss the role that I played in caring…

Can a part of normal flora be a killer of the newborns? Grampositive bacterium colonized in 25% of women is THE leading cause of blood infection, pneumonia and meningitis in newborns. GBS can cause babies to be miscarried, stillborn, or become very sick and sometimes even die after birth. Some GBS survivors have permanent handicaps such as blindness, deafness, mental challenges, and/or cerebral palsy. Because of the severity of a GBS infection in the newborn, treatment guidelines have been…

Infant mortality is one of the important and widely used health indicators in the United State. While the definite cause of the infant mortality is still unknown, there are factors that are associated with the infant death. By looking at the trends between the trends between 1960 and 1995, we learn about many of these factors. Infant mortality rate declined slowly from 1960 to 1964, perhaps that is because the gap in mortality between black and white infants narrowed dramatically in this time…