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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.
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]
Advanced cardiac life support – Emergency medical care; Advanced trauma life support – American medical training program; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – Emergency procedure after sudden cardiac arrest; Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation – Experimental emergency medicine procedure
The primary indication for a resuscitative thoracotomy is a patient with penetrating chest trauma who has entered or is about to enter cardiac arrest. [4] Other indications for the use of this procedure include the appearance of blood from a chest tube that returns more than 1500 mL of blood during the first hour of placement, or ≥200 mL of ...
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 infants ...
Photos show firefighters battling a fire that started Monday night near Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.
Perinatal asphyxia (also known as neonatal asphyxia or birth asphyxia) is the medical condition resulting from deprivation of oxygen to a newborn infant that lasts long enough during the birth process to cause physical harm, usually to the brain.
The FEMA Photo Library (now FEMA Media Library) was an online gallery of photos compiled by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of the United States, containing more than 52,000 disaster related photographs taken since 1980. [1]