NICU neonatal intensive care

AE, administration error ED, emergency department ME, medication error NICU, neonatal intensive care unit PCICU, paediatric cardiac intensive care unit PICU, paediatric intensive care unit PE, prescribing error PCW, paediatric cardiac ward DE, dispensing error. 

RDS, historically known as hyaline membrane disease (HMD), is more appropriately termed surfactant-deficiency RDS. RDS is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Before 35 weeks gestation, the risk of RDS and the severity of disease increase with greater degree of prematurity and, in the absence of appropriate antenatal interventions, occurs in over 50% of newborns of 30 weeks or less gestation. The Vermont Oxford Network experience for 1999 describes over 27,000 neonates below 1500 g from 325 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) sites. The annual report noted that RDS occurred in over 80% of premature infants below 1000 g and that there was a gradual decline to about 42% of neonates with birth weights between 1400 and 1500 g. 

In a survey of parents with preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) who had been asked to join two or more studies, 5 8 % were willing for their baby to be in three or more studies (Morley et ai, 2005). Parents are willing to help other children with similar conditions even though they know that their own children may not benefit from the study. Researchers should exercise their judgement to decide the appropriateness of using the same patient population for different studies. They need to ask Is this patient population over-researched Can we make use of a different patient group ... 

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Intensive care unit for high-risk, often premature infants, who are suffering from life-threatening problems. 

In the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) setting, it is even more difficult to find data on the true frequency of nosocomial tracheitis. At the occurrence of nosocomial tracheitis in the NICU has varied considerably from year to year. Since 1992, nosocomial tracheitis has represented 11.5% to 25% of all identified nosocomial infections in the NICU patients (30). The rate of tracheitis for neonates on mechanical ventilation has varied without any specific identifiable pattern, from 3.7 to 10.8 per 1000 ventilator-days. 

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