Since the establishment of the first US neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in 1960,1 the neonatal mortality rate has fallen more than 4-fold, from 18.73 per 1000 live births to 4.04 per 1000 live births in 2012.2 Much of this decline can be attributed to the highly specialized care provided to premature and
sick infants by neonatologists and multidisciplinary teams working in NICUs.3, 4
Not exact matches
My friend will preach Christ week
by week, he will baptize
infants, administer the Lord's Supper, perform weddings, visit the
sick, prepare the living for death, comfort the mourning, and bury the dead.
You can help save a baby's life
by donating your breastmilk to the Rogers Hixon Ontario Human Milk Bank, an Ontario - wide resource for pre-term and
sick hospitalized
infants.
She is a member of the International Association of Child Sleep Consultants and a Certified Gentle Sleep Coach ® trained
by Kim West, The Sleep Lady ® and has completed the
Infant Mental Health Community Training with The Hospital for
Sick Children.
Premature or
sick infants often go weeks to months without taking foods
by mouth.
A study conducted
by researcher at Toronto's Hospital for
Sick Children of 2184 children determined that the risk of asthma and wheezing was approximately 50 per cent higher for formula fed
infants when compared to their breastfed counterparts.
However, Bunik et al. demonstrated that daily telephone support (vs. controls) resulted in lower rates of health care use for
sick infant visits
by 1 mo of life (25 vs. 36 %, P = 0.05)(28).
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infants in France have become
sick after being fed formulas contaminated
by the dangerous bacteria Salmonella.