Author/Editor		Burja, S; Todorovič-Guid, M; Golob-Tekauc, A
Title		Preventivni vidik oskrbe novorojencev v porodnišnici
Translated title		Preventive aspects of neonatal care at the maternity ward
Type		članek
Source		Slov Pediatr
Vol. and No.		Letnik 3, št. 1-3
Publication year		1996
Volume		str. 41-4
Language		slo
Abstract		Modern technologies in neonatal intensive care units maintain life in lowbirthweight infants who would have died in earlier decades, and there is a new generation of infants born "at high risk" of health and developmental problems. It is clear that neonatologists must understand and accept their responsibility to monitor and assess their patients' growth and development and to consider various approaches to optimize and enhance this development. Efforts at primary intervention for all children to optimize development and minimize problems are presented first, along with developmental and environmental screening instruments for early identification of problems. The neonatal clinical examination, normally carried out within the first hour after birth and again before discharge, is an extremly important part of overall child health surveillance, as the majority of severe abnormalities are picked up at this time. The newborn period is an ideal time to influence the mother - child relationship. Many changes have occurred in nursery care and many nursery interventions have been attemped, resulting in modifications in hospital policies (e.g. delivery room care, family visitation, rooming-in care) and in general in a more humanistic approach to the entire birthing process and neonatal period. As a result of these trends, neonatologists spend a large percentage of their clinical time in health supervision visits with children who are not acutely ill, in so called primary intervention - care provided to all newbors for the purpose of prevention of developmental and behavioral problems, and the promotion of optimal growth and development Many environmental and biologic factors have potentially adverse effects on the behavioral or developmental outcome of the child. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters.)
Descriptors		INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES PRIMARY PREVENTION INFANT, NEWBORN