Intensive Care Units, Neonatal

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Quality Improvement Project to Increase Frequency of Skin-to-Skin Contact for Extreme Low-Birth-Weight Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • A blinded, randomized, multicenter study of an intravenous Staphylococcus aureus immune globulin. 
  • A case of infant delirium in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • A comparison of neonatal Gram-negative rod and Gram-positive cocci meningitis. 
  • A directory for neonatal intensive care: potential for facilitating network-based research in neonatology. 
  • A discrete event simulation tool to support and predict hospital and clinic staffing. 
  • A nurse's guide to common mechanical ventilation techniques and modes used in infants. Nursing implications. 
  • A pilot study to examine maturation of body temperature control in preterm infants. 
  • A reliable and cost-effective neonatal aminoglycoside administration system. 
  • A retrospective review of gastroschisis epidemiology and referral patterns in northern Ghana. 
  • Acute Responses to Diuretic Therapy in Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborns: Results from the Prematurity and Respiratory Outcomes Program Cohort Study. 
  • Addressing Unmet Maternal Health Needs at a Pediatric Specialty Infant Care Clinic. 
  • Admission Temperature and Associated Mortality and Morbidity among Moderately and Extremely Preterm Infants. 
  • Adverse consequences of neonatal antibiotic exposure. 
  • Antenatal methadone vs buprenorphine exposure and length of hospital stay in infants admitted to the intensive care unit with neonatal abstinence syndrome. 
  • Antibiotic Susceptibility of Escherichia coli Among Infants Admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Units Across the US From 2009 to 2017. 
  • Antibiotic use and misuse in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Antifungal Susceptibility and Clinical Outcome in Neonatal Candidiasis. 
  • Antifungal therapy and outcomes in infants with invasive Candida infections. 
  • Antihypertensive drug exposure in premature infants from 1997 to 2013. 
  • Association between Hyperbilirubinemia and Hearing Screen Failure in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Infants Born Preterm. 
  • Association between Nephrotoxic Drug Combinations and Acute Kidney Injury in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Association between Policy Changes for Oxygen Saturation Alarm Settings and Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality in Infants Born Very Preterm. 
  • Association between early echocardiography, therapy for patent ductus arteriosus, and outcomes in very low birth weight infants. 
  • Association between neonatal intensive care unit medication safety practices, adverse events, and death. 
  • Association between postmenstrual age and furosemide dosing practices in very preterm infants. 
  • Association of Atrial Septal Defects and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Premature Infants. 
  • Association of an Active Surveillance and Decolonization Program on Incidence of Clinical Cultures Growing Staphylococcus aureus in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Association of in utero magnesium exposure and spontaneous intestinal perforations in extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Bacteremia, central catheters, and neonates: when to pull the line. 
  • Beyond the First Wave: Consequences of COVID-19 on High-Risk Infants and Families. 
  • Birth asphyxia survivors in a developing country. 
  • Black Race Is Associated with a Lower Risk of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. 
  • Blood cultures and antibiotic use in a neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Body temperature instability and respiratory morbidity in the very low birth weight infant: a multiple case, intensive longitudinal study. 
  • Breastfeeding experiences and perspectives on support among Chinese mothers separated from their hospitalized preterm infants: a qualitative study. 
  • Bridging the gap: leveraging business intelligence tools in support of patient safety and financial effectiveness. 
  • Burden of Invasive Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Hospitalized Infants. 
  • Burden of Neonatal Surgical Conditions in Northern Ghana. 
  • Burnout in the NICU setting and its relation to safety culture. 
  • Burnout in the neonatal intensive care unit and its relation to healthcare-associated infections. 
  • Candida bloodstream infection in neonates. 
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in hospitalized infants. 
  • Care of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduate after Discharge. 
  • Changes in the incidence of candidiasis in neonatal intensive care units. 
  • Changing safety culture. 
  • Characterization of Death in Neonatal Encephalopathy in the Hypothermia Era. 
  • Clinical Profile of Neonates with Hypernatremic Dehydration in an Outborn Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Clinical characteristics and response to prophylactic fluconazole of preterm VLBW neonates with baseline and acquired fungal colonisation in NICU: data from a multicentre RCT. 
  • Clinical trial design in neonatal pharmacology: effect of center differences, with lessons from the Pediatric Oncology Cooperative Research experience. 
  • Coagulase-negative staphylococcal infections in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Communicating prognosis with parents of critically ill infants: direct observation of clinician behaviors. 
  • Comparative effectiveness and safety of indomethacin versus ibuprofen for the treatment of patent ductus arteriosus. 
  • Comparison of short-term outcomes of 35-weeks' gestation infants cared for in a level II NICU vs mother-baby, a retrospective study. 
  • Congenital Heart Disease in Premature Infants 25-32 Weeks' Gestational Age. 
  • Congenital Tuberculosis: A New Concern in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Congenital cutaneous candidiasis: a case presentation. 
  • Context in Quality of Care: Improving Teamwork and Resilience. 
  • Cost comparison of using reusable versus disposable equipment for retinopathy of prematurity screening rounds. 
  • Covariation of changing patent ductus arteriosus management and preterm infant outcomes in Pediatrix neonatal intensive care units. 
  • Critical appraisal of the role of Ureaplasma in the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia with metaanalytic techniques. 
  • Cycled light and growth of preterms. 
  • Daily mortality of infants born at less than 30weeks' gestation. 
  • Definitions of cardiovascular insufficiency and relation to outcomes in critically ill newborn infants. 
  • Demonstrating the relationships of length of stay, cost and clinical outcomes in a simulated NICU. 
  • Differentiating between pain and agitation in premature neonates 
  • Discharging Medically Complex Infants with Supplemental Nasogastric Tube Feeds: Impact on Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Length of Stay and Prevention of Gastrostomy Tubes. 
  • Does preterm period sleep development predict early childhood growth trajectories? 
  • Dosing and Safety of Off-label Use of Caffeine Citrate in Premature Infants. 
  • Dosing of Antimicrobials in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Does Clinical Practice Reflect Pharmacokinetics-based Recommendations? 
  • Drug labeling and exposure in neonates. 
  • Early Bubble Continuous Positive Airway Pressure: Investigating Interprofessional Best Practices for the NICU Team. 
  • Early Caffeine Prophylaxis and Risk of Failure of Initial Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in Very Low Birth Weight Infants. 
  • Early and late onset sepsis in late preterm infants. 
  • Early and late onset sepsis in very-low-birth-weight infants from a large group of neonatal intensive care units. 
  • Early-onset sepsis in term infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units (2011-2016). 
  • Echinocandins for the nursery: an update. 
  • Effect of Catheter Dwell Time on Risk of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection in Infants. 
  • Effect of depth and duration of cooling on deaths in the NICU among neonates with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Effect of environmental changes on noise in the NICU. 
  • Effect of fluconazole prophylaxis on candidiasis and mortality in premature infants: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Effect of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in the neonatal intensive care unit on total hospital cost. 
  • Effectiveness of a barcode medication administration system in reducing preventable adverse drug events in a neonatal intensive care unit: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Electronic Health Records and Pharmacokinetic Modeling to Assess the Relationship between Ampicillin Exposure and Seizure Risk in Neonates. 
  • Elucidating the role of genomics in neonatal sepsis. 
  • Empirical therapy for neonatal candidemia in very low birth weight infants. 
  • Enteral Feeding with Human Milk Decreases Time to Discharge in Infants following Gastroschisis Repair. 
  • Epidemiology and risk factors for recurrent Staphylococcus aureus colonization following active surveillance and decolonization in the NICU. 
  • Evaluating Endotracheal Tube Depth in Infants Weighing Less Than 1 Kilogram. 
  • Evaluation of Gentamicin Exposure in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Hearing Function at Discharge. 
  • Evaluation of Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity by ROPtool or a Lay Reader. 
  • Exposure to Leadership WalkRounds in neonatal intensive care units is associated with a better patient safety culture and less caregiver burnout. 
  • Factors Associated With Provider Burnout in the NICU. 
  • Fathers' Visitation of Very Low Birth Weight Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit during the First Week of Life. 
  • Fluconazole prophylaxis for prevention of invasive candidiasis in infants. 
  • Frequency of anomalies and hospital outcomes in infants with gastroschisis and omphalocele. 
  • Fulminant pertussis: a multi-center study with new insights into the clinico-pathological mechanisms. 
  • Gabapentin Use in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Golden Hour Protocol for Preterm Infants: A Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Group B Streptococcus and Escherichia coli infections in the intensive care nursery in the era of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis. 
  • Growth During Infancy After Extremely Preterm Birth: Associations with Later Neurodevelopmental and Health Outcomes. 
  • Health, Physical Growth, and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preterm Infants of Women With Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy. 
  • Heat loss prevention for preterm infants in the delivery room. 
  • Heat loss prevention in the delivery room for preterm infants: a national survey of newborn intensive care units. 
  • Hypocarbia in the ventilated preterm infant and its effect on intraventricular haemorrhage and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. 
  • Impact of Diuretic Therapy in the Treatment of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Acute Kidney Injury in the Neonatal Population. 
  • Impact of a palliative care program on end-of-life care in a neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Implementing a Parent Education Program in the Special Care Nursery. 
  • Implementing practice guidelines and education to improve care of infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome. 
  • Improved Use of Human Milk, Growth, and Central Line Utilization With Standard Feeding Roadmap in an Academic NICU. 
  • Improving the Process of Enteral Nutrition Preparation With Milk Technicians: Perceptions of Cost, Time, and Quality. 
  • In-Hospital Outcomes Following Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Retrospective Cohort of Infants. 
  • In-hospital outcomes of premature infants with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia. 
  • Increasing incidence of the neonatal abstinence syndrome in U.S. neonatal ICUs. 
  • Individual and center-level factors affecting mortality among extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Infants With Technology Dependence: Facilitating the Road to Home. 
  • Infection Prevention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Infection control and other stewardship strategies in late onset sepsis, necrotizing enterocolitis, and localized infection in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Information Order for Periviable Counseling: Does It Make a Difference? 
  • Intranasal midazolam and fentanyl for procedural sedation and analgesia in infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Invasive Candida infections in the neonate. 
  • Is an increased dwell time of a peripherally inserted catheter associated with an increased risk of bloodstream infection in infants? 
  • Isolated and On Guard: Preparing Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Families for Life with Hydrocephalus. 
  • Lessons learned. 
  • Long-term Outcomes after Postnatal Cytomegalovirus Infection in Low Birthweight Preterm Infants: A Systematic Review. 
  • Longitudinal medical needs for periviable NICU survivors. 
  • Management Practice and Mortality for Infants with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. 
  • Measuring Parental Presence in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Medication Use in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Changes from 2010 to 2018. 
  • Medication use in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Medications and in-hospital outcomes in infants born at 22-24 weeks of gestation. 
  • Meningitis in preterm neonates: importance of cerebrospinal fluid parameters. 
  • Mentoring new nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit: impact on satisfaction and retention. 
  • Metabolomic Fingerprinting of Infants Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Changes in Metabolic Pathways and Association With Mortality and Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Length of Stay. 
  • Metoclopramide, H2 blockers, and proton pump inhibitors: pharmacotherapy for gastroesophageal reflux in neonates. 
  • Modifiable Risk Factors in Necrotizing Enterocolitis. 
  • Monitoring of cerebral oxygenation in the intensive care nursery. 
  • Morphine vs Methadone Treatment for Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. 
  • Mortality Risk Factors among Infants Receiving Dialysis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Mothers' Psychological Distress and Feeding of Their Preterm Infants. 
  • NICU Fathers: Improving the Quality of Paternal Support in the NICU. 
  • National Survey of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Medication Safety Practices. 
  • Necrotizing enterocolitis and the use of loop diuretics in very low birth weight neonates. 
  • Negative Temperature Differential in Preterm Infants Less Than 29 Weeks Gestational Age: Associations With Infection and Maternal Smoking. 
  • Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Use of Ultrasonography to Verify Umbilical Venous Catheter Placement in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Neonatal Thermoregulation: A Golden Hour Protocol Update. 
  • Neonatal candidiasis: diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. 
  • Neonatal intensive care unit handoffs: a pilot study on core elements and epidemiology of errors. 
  • Neonatal intensive care unit safety culture varies widely. 
  • Neonatal outcomes associated with planned vaginal versus planned primary cesarean delivery. 
  • Neurobehavioral evaluation of neonates with congenital heart disease: a cohort study. 
  • No question too small: development of a question prompt list for parents of critically ill infants. 
  • No survival benefit with empirical vancomycin therapy for coagulase-negative staphylococcal bloodstream infections in infants. 
  • Non-nutritive sucking for preterm infants in Egypt. 
  • Nosocomial infection in the NICU: a medical complication or unavoidable problem? 
  • Not by the books. 
  • Notes from the Field: Contact Investigation for an Infant with Congenital Tuberculosis Infection - North Carolina, 2016. 
  • Novel transatrial septoplasty technique for neonates with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and an intact or highly restrictive atrial septum. 
  • Nursery songs. 
  • Nursing assessment of guaiac-positive and occult blood in preterm infant stools. 
  • Old and new: appropriate dosing for neonatal antifungal drugs in the nursery. 
  • One intensive care nursery's experience with enhancing patient safety. 
  • PaCO2 in surfactant, positive pressure, and oxygenation randomised trial (SUPPORT). 
  • Palliative care in neonatal neurology: robust support for infants, families and clinicians. 
  • Parent preferences for neurodevelopmental screening in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Parental Stress and Mental Health Symptoms in the NICU: Recognition and Interventions. 
  • Parents' Knowledge and Education of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Four California Neonatal Intensive Care Units. 
  • Patterns of phlebotomy blood loss and transfusions in extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Pharmacoepidemiology of Furosemide in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Poorer neurodevelopmental outcomes associated with cystoid macular edema identified in preterm infants in the intensive care nursery. 
  • Posterior Pole Vascular Changes Before Treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity. 
  • Postoperative handoff communication: a simulation-based training method. 
  • Potential NICU Environmental Influences on the Neonate's Microbiome: A Systematic Review. 
  • Predicting time to hospital discharge for extremely preterm infants. 
  • Predictors of Nonelective Removal of Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters in Infants. 
  • Predictors of Prolonged Breast Milk Provision to Very Low Birth Weight Infants. 
  • Preterm infants born at less than 31 weeks' gestation have improved growth in cycled light compared with continuous near darkness. 
  • Prevalence and safety of diazoxide in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Prevalence of renal anomalies after urinary tract infections in hospitalized infants less than 2 months of age. 
  • Prevention and treatment of nosocomial sepsis in the NICU. 
  • Principles, policy and practice of antibiotic stewardship. 
  • Probiotic Use and Safety in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Matched Cohort Study. 
  • Prolonged furosemide exposure and risk of abnormal newborn hearing screen in premature infants. 
  • Protocol for implementation of an evidence based parentally administered intervention for preterm infants. 
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparity in NICU Quality of Care Delivery. 
  • Real-time, computer-assisted quantification of plus disease in retinopathy of prematurity at the bedside. 
  • Reduced oxygen concentration for the resuscitation of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. 
  • Reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections in North Carolina NICUs. 
  • Regional variation in antenatal corticosteroid use: a network-level quality improvement study. 
  • Relationship of neonatal treatments with the development of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants. 
  • Repeat lumbar punctures in infants with meningitis in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Respiratory Medications in Infants <29 Weeks during the First Year Postdischarge: The Prematurity and Respiratory Outcomes Program (PROP) Consortium. 
  • Rifampin use and safety in hospitalized infants. 
  • Risk Factors and In-Hospital Outcomes following Tracheostomy in Infants. 
  • Role of Social Workers in Family Conferences for Critically Ill Infants. 
  • Ronald McDonald House accommodation and parental presence in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • SHEA neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) white paper series: Practical approaches to Staphylococcus aureus disease prevention. 
  • Safety climate, safety climate strength, and length of stay in the NICU. 
  • Safety of Enalapril in Infants Admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Safety of histamine-2 receptor blockers in hospitalized VLBW infants. 
  • Safety of micafungin in infants: insights into optimal dosing. 
  • Safety of milrinone use in neonatal intensive care units. 
  • Safety of octreotide in hospitalized infants. 
  • Saving neonatal lives by improving infection prevention in low-resource units: tools are needed. 
  • Sedatives and Analgesics Given to Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units at the End of Life. 
  • Sepsis in young infants with congenital heart disease. 
  • Severe Congenital Syphilis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Retrospective Case Series. 
  • Sharing Data to Accelerate Medicine Development and Improve Neonatal Care: Data Standards and Harmonized Definitions. 
  • Shifting focus toward healthcare-associated bloodstream infections: The need for neonatal intensive care unit-specific NHSN definitions. 
  • Should Neonatologists Give Opinions Withdrawing Life-sustaining Treatment? 
  • Sildenafil Exposure in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Strategies to Support Oral Feeding of High-Risk Infants. 
  • Survival at the threshold of viability: a nationwide survey of the opinions and attitudes of physicians in a developing country. 
  • Sustained Reduction in Bloodstream Infections in Infants at a Large Tertiary Care Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Systematic Changes to Help Parentsof Medically Complex Infants Manage Medical Expenses. 
  • Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: practice guidelines and recommendations for training. Writing Group of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) in collaboration with the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) and the Association for European Pediatric Cardiologists (AEPC). 
  • Targeted neonatal echocardiography in the neonatal intensive care unit: practice guidelines and recommendations for training: 
  • Teamwork in the NICU Setting and Its Association with Health Care-Associated Infections in Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants. 
  • Temperature profile and outcomes of neonates undergoing whole body hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. 
  • The "other" intensive care unit. 
  • The Association of Level of Care With NICU Quality. 
  • The Correlation Between Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Safety Culture and Quality of Care. 
  • The NICU Environment: Infusing Single-Family Room Benefits into the Open-Bay Setting. 
  • The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire as a tool for benchmarking safety culture in the NICU. 
  • The effects of environmental noise and infant position on cerebral oxygenation. 
  • The epidemiology and diagnosis of invasive candidiasis among premature infants. 
  • The use of antifungal therapy in neonatal intensive care. 
  • Thrombosis in infants in the neonatal intensive care unit: Analysis of a large national database. 
  • Timing for the Introduction of Cycled Light for Extremely Preterm Infants: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Timing of Multiorgan Dysfunction among Hospitalized Infants with Fatal Fulminant Sepsis. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Children in Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units. 
  • Transpyloric tube feeding in very low birthweight infants with suspected gastroesophageal reflux: impact on apnea and bradycardia. 
  • Traumatic lumbar punctures in neonates: test performance of the cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count. 
  • Use and Safety of Erythromycin and Metoclopramide in Hospitalized Infants. 
  • Use of medications for gastroesophageal reflux at discharge among extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Variation in Gastrostomy Tube Placement in Premature Infants in the United States. 
  • Vasoactive medications in extremely low gestational age neonates during the first postnatal week. 
  • Very late onset infections in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Weaning of Moderately Preterm Infants from the Incubator to the Crib: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • When to suspect fungal infection in neonates: A clinical comparison of Candida albicans and Candida parapsilosis fungemia with coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteremia. 
  • Where You Are Born Really Does Matter: Why Birth Hospital and Quality of Care Contribute to Racial/Ethnic Disparities. 
  • Which infants should receive indomethacin prophylaxis: moving closer to individualized medicine in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Why does Joy at Work Matter? 
  • Working together in the neonatal intensive care unit: provider perspectives. 
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  • Aleem, Samia, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Neonatology
  • Barker, Piers Christopher Andrew, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Cardiology
  • Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases