The high-risk infant is going home: what now?
| Autor: | Jennifer L McMurray |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
Interprofessional Relations
MEDLINE Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Critical Care Nursing Pediatrics Child Development Professional-Family Relations Intensive care Neonatal Nursing Medicine Humans Program Development High risk infants Patient discharge business.industry Infant Newborn General Medicine Continuity of Patient Care medicine.disease Child development Patient Discharge Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Intensive Care Neonatal Program development Medical emergency business Infant Premature |
| Zdroj: | Neonatal network : NN. 23(1) |
| ISSN: | 0730-0832 |
| Popis: | EACH YEAR APPROXIMATELY 460,000 infants—nearly 12 percent of all babies born in the U.S.—are born prematurely.1Technological advances in the medical and nursing care of premature infants over the past decade have increased survival rates among preterm newborns, especially of very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. Survival rates are as high as 49 percent for infants weighing 501–750 gm at birth, 85 percent for infants weighing 751–1,000 gm, 93 percent for infants weighing 1,001–1,250 gm, and 96 percent for infants weighing 1,251–1,500 gm.2Although 50–60 percent of VLBW infants have normal outcomes, morbidity rates range from 40 to 50 percent.3Because of this incidence of morbidity, premature infants require comprehensive primary care follow-up after discharge from the NICU. |
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