Expanding the Reach of Bubble Cpap Devices- results from 2015 Stakeholder Workshop in Uganda
| Autor: | Deborah Lester, Kelly Ebels, Maneesh Batra, Alec Wollen, Mike Eisenstein, James Nyonyintono, Anna B Hedstrom, Eugene Saxon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Respiratory distress business.industry medicine.medical_treatment media_common.quotation_subject Stakeholder Bubble CPAP Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine Effective treatment Lower cost Quality (business) Continuous positive airway pressure Intensive care medicine business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Section on International Child Health Program. |
| DOI: | 10.1542/peds.141.1_meetingabstract.483 |
| Popis: | Background Bubble continuous positive airway pressure (bCPAP) is a simple and effective treatment for neonates with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), a condition that kills and disables many of the 15 million preterm and low birth-weight neonates born worldwide annually. Commercialized CPAP devices are often too expensive for low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings and while lower cost devices exist, they still cost in excess of $800. In these settings, providers improvise bCPAP devices using components available to save lives, but little is known about their construction, quality, and safety. In September 2015, a 3-day symposium was … |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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