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Neonatal and Pediatric Medicine
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Supportive care of the sick neonate
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eonates are the future of the society and care of the neonates in the first few days of life is extremely
unique. The little ones who have some health problems right after birth need special care in special units
like NICU or SCUBU. To take care of these babies especially those who need help for their breathing we need
not only especial unit, but especial infrastructures, equipment’s and trained medical professional’s doctors and
nurses. Nurses are back bone of the neonatal care. We need to focus on the supportive care which would be
required by the sick neonates. Monitoring is most effective tool for efficient ventilation especially in the first
few hours. A skilled nurse’s feel good or bad factor on newborn’s clinical picture is to be taken as the most
crucial factor for deciding management strategies for the day. It will provide early evidence of potentially
dangerous conditions- gas trapping and hyperinflation help to determine optimal PEEP, give immediate
feedback on the effects of changes in ventilator parameters and the real-time monitoring would reduce the
need for many ancillary tests such as chest X-ray, blood gas analysis, thus decreasing the cost of health care.
This will allows better control of some variables. Irrespective of the technique or mode of ventilation chosen,
the nursing principles are to identify the most appropriate device, technique and strategy to achieve and
maintain adequate pulmonary gas exchange, minimize the risk of lung injury/recognition and prevention of
VALI (Ventilator Associated Lung Injury), reduce newborn Work of Breathing (WOB) and Optimize newborn
comfort for appropriate oxygenation and appropriate ventilation. Gas transport depends on ventilation,
perfusion, hemoglobin and oxygen binding. Surfactant production depends on glucose, oxygen and other
nutrition. Long term neurodevelopmental outcome is dependent on maintenance of normal oxygen, BP,
glucose, nutrition, developmental care. Family support minimizes stress and optimizes outcomes. Monitoring
will include appearance, comfort, color, heart rate, capillary refill time, respiratory rate, chest expansion/
retraction, synchrony, urine output, abdomen, feeding, Central nervous system, pain, breastfeeding, social,
emotional and financial. Supportive care would include positioning, physiotherapy, prevention of nosocomial
infection, surveillance of flora, provision of in-utero like milieu, minimizing oxygen demand, schedule care
activities at one go-club together approach softly and gently, humidification and pulmonary hygiene and
suctioning, ABG monitoring, fluid and nutritional support, sedation, analgesia and paralysis, weaning, site
and type of IV access, documentation, follow up care, emotional support and good communications.
Biography
Monika Kaushal has completed her MBBS, MD Pediatrics, DM Neonatolgy from FRCPCH. She has several publications in journals which are
indexed both nationally and internationally indexed journals. She has a great passion for research, teaching and dissemination of knowledge.
She is currently pursuing MSc in Neonatology from Southampton University, UK.
sandeepmonica_1@rediffmail.comMonika Kaushal
Emirates Specialty Hospital, UAE
Monika Kaushal, Neonat Pediatr Med 2019, Volume 5