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Julie Bines (MBBS, MD, FRACP, AGAF), is a clinician and researcher working in Melbourne, Australia.Alongside being a professor and deputy head of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, she is also a paediatric gastroenterologist at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and is the leader of the Enteric Diseases group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
Neonatal resuscitation, also known as newborn resuscitation, is an emergency procedure focused on supporting approximately 10% of newborn children who do not readily begin breathing, putting them at risk of irreversible organ injury and death. [1] Many of the infants who require this support to start breathing well on their own after assistance ...
The Synactive Theory is the foundation of both: 1) the Assessment of Preterm Infants’ Behavior (APIB), [3] [4] a standardized comprehensive newborn test, and 2) the Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP), [5] which is the care and intervention approach, that focuses on each infant's behavioral cues (e.g ...
Retinopathy of prematurity ( ROP ), also called retrolental fibroplasia ( RLF) and Terry syndrome, is a disease of the eye affecting prematurely born babies generally having received neonatal intensive care, in which oxygen therapy is used because of the premature development of their lungs. [2]
Deaths. 805,800 [7] Preterm birth, also known as premature birth, is the birth of a baby at fewer than 37 weeks gestational age, as opposed to full-term delivery at approximately 40 weeks. [1] Extreme preterm [2] is less than 28 weeks, very early preterm birth is between 28 and 32 weeks, early preterm birth occurs between 32 and 34 weeks, late ...
A neonatal intensive care unit ( NICU ), also known as an intensive care nursery ( ICN ), is an intensive care unit (ICU) specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants. The NICU is divided into several areas, including a critical care area for babies who require close monitoring and intervention, an intermediate care area for ...
Neonatal Resuscitation Program. Neonatal Resuscitation Program logo. The Neonatal Resuscitation Program is an educational program in neonatal resuscitation that was developed and is maintained by the American Academy of Pediatrics. [1] This program focuses on basic resuscitation skills for newly born infants. [2]
Specialty. Pediatrics, obstetrics. Infant respiratory distress syndrome ( IRDS ), also known as surfactant deficiency disorder ( SDD ), [2] and previously called hyaline membrane disease ( HMD ), is a syndrome in premature infants caused by developmental insufficiency of pulmonary surfactant production and structural immaturity in the lungs.