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A transport incubator is an incubator in a transportable form, and is used when a sick or premature baby is moved, e.g., from one hospital to another, as from a community hospital to a larger medical facility with a proper neonatal intensive-care unit.
An incubator is a plastic dome-shaped machine designed as a crib that regulates a newborn infant's body temperature. The incubator is designed to allow the temperature to be adjusted according to the state of the baby's current body heat. A range of five types of incubators all serve different purposes in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Physician performing a physical exam on a newborn baby after a Caesarean section. Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of the medical care of newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn. It is a hospital-based specialty and is usually practised in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
Medics reduced to eating animal feed to get through their gruelling shifts. Mothers unable to breastfeed because they are so weak and hungry. Pregnant women in intensive care – and even losing ...
Embrace, based in San Francisco, California, makes low-cost portable baby incubators that don’t require a stable electricity supply. The Embrace incubator resembles a sleeping bag, but for a baby.
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Her twin sister was also a small baby, weighing 563 g (1 lb 3.9 oz) at birth. During pregnancy their mother had pre-eclampsia , requiring birth by caesarean section . The larger twin left the hospital at the end of December, while the smaller remained there until 10 February 2005 by which time her weight had increased to 1.18 kg (2 lb 10 oz ...
It is important to know that some foods are restricted for infants; for example, whether breast- or bottle-fed, infants do not need additional fluids during the first four months of life. [2] Excessive intake of extra fluids or supplements can have harmful effects. Fluids besides human breast milk or iron-enriched infant formula are not ...