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1. Neonatal intensive care unit discharge preparation, family readiness and infant outcomes: connecting the dots

Author

DeWayne M. Pursley, Vincent C. Smith, Sunah S. Hwang, Susan Young, and Dmitry Dukhovny

Subjects
Neonatal intensive care unit, Patient Discharge Summaries, Home Nursing, health care facilities, manpower, and services, education, Population, Infant, Premature, Diseases, Discharge readiness, Risk Assessment, Infant outcomes, Nursing, Professional-Family Relations, Medicine, Humans, Technical skills, Cooperative Behavior, Patient Care Team, education.field_of_study, business.industry, Infant Care, Infant, Newborn, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Checklist, Patient Discharge, Intensive Care Units, Caregivers, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Family Nursing, Interdisciplinary Communication, business
Abstract

Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) discharge readiness is defined as the masterful attainment of technical skills and knowledge, emotional comfort, and confidence with infant care by the primary caregivers at the time of discharge. NICU discharge preparation is the process of facilitating comfort and confidence as well as the acquisition of knowledge and skills to successfully make the transition from the NICU to home. In this paper, we first review the literature about discharge readiness as it relates to the NICU population. Understanding that discharge readiness is achieved, in part, through successful discharge preparation, we then outline an approach to NICU discharge preparation.

Published
2013

2. Variations in prevalence of hypotension, hypertension, and vasopressor use in NICUs

Author

Issa C. Al-Aweel, Douglas K. Richardson, Bhavesh Shah, DeWayne M. Pursley, Lewis P. Rubin, and Stuart Weisberger

Subjects
Male, Birth weight, Infant, Premature, Diseases, Logistic regression, Cerebral Ventricles, Intensive Care Units, Neonatal, Medicine, Humans, Infant, Very Low Birth Weight, Vasoconstrictor Agents, Prospective Studies, Prospective cohort study, Cerebral Hemorrhage, business.industry, Infant, Newborn, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gestational age, Rhode Island, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, Drug Utilization, Low birth weight, Intraventricular hemorrhage, Blood pressure, Treatment Outcome, Massachusetts, Anesthesia, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Hypertension, Female, medicine.symptom, Hypotension, business, hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists
Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Very low birth weight infants are vulnerable to hypotension and its associated complications. Vasopressors are used to raise blood pressure (BP), but indications for use are uncertain. Our objectives were (1) to study variations in BP stability among NICUs, (2) to investigate inter-NICU differences in vasopressor use, and (3) to address the association between intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) and abnormal BPs. STUDY DESIGN: A total of 1288 infants with birth weight

Published
2001

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