Intensive Care Units, Neonatal

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Test of Kangaroo Care on Preterm Infant Breastfeeding. 
  • 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 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. 
  • Admission Temperature and Associated Mortality and Morbidity among Moderately and Extremely Preterm Infants. 
  • Adverse consequences of neonatal antibiotic exposure. 
  • An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Workshop Report: Evaluation of Respiratory Mechanics and Function in the Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units. 
  • Analysis of matched samples. 
  • Antibiotic use and misuse in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Antifungal therapy and outcomes in infants with invasive Candida infections. 
  • Antihypertensive drug exposure in premature infants from 1997 to 2013. 
  • Association between early echocardiography, therapy for patent ductus arteriosus, and outcomes in very low birth weight infants. 
  • Association of in utero magnesium exposure and spontaneous intestinal perforations in extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Associations of Maternal and Infant Testosterone and Cortisol Levels With Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Infant Socioemotional Problems. 
  • Bacteremia, central catheters, and neonates: when to pull the line. 
  • Birth asphyxia survivors in a developing country. 
  • Blood cultures and antibiotic use in a neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Bridging the gap: leveraging business intelligence tools in support of patient safety and financial effectiveness. 
  • Burden of Invasive Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Hospitalized Infants. 
  • 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. 
  • Changes in the incidence of candidiasis in neonatal intensive care units. 
  • Characteristics of obstetric intensive care unit admissions in New Jersey. 
  • Characterization of Death in Neonatal Encephalopathy in the Hypothermia Era. 
  • 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. 
  • Congenital Heart Disease in Premature Infants 25-32 Weeks' Gestational Age. 
  • Congenital cutaneous candidiasis: a case presentation. 
  • Context in Quality of Care: Improving Teamwork and Resilience. 
  • Critical appraisal of the role of Ureaplasma in the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia with metaanalytic techniques. 
  • 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. 
  • Does preterm period sleep development predict early childhood growth trajectories? 
  • Drug labeling and exposure in neonates. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Elevated serum lactate correlates with intracranial hemorrhage in neonates treated with extracorporeal life support. 
  • 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. 
  • Environmental stimulation of the acutely ill premature infant: physiological effects and nursing implications. 
  • 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. 
  • Fluconazole prophylaxis for prevention of invasive candidiasis in infants. 
  • Frequency of anomalies and hospital outcomes in infants with gastroschisis and omphalocele. 
  • Gabapentin Use in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Genotyping of Candida parapsilosis from three neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) using a panel of five multilocus microsatellite markers: broad genetic diversity and a cluster of related strains in one NICU. 
  • Group B Streptococcus and Escherichia coli infections in the intensive care nursery in the era of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis. 
  • 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. 
  • Hemodynamic instability after the initiation of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: role of ionized calcium. 
  • Hypocarbia in the ventilated preterm infant and its effect on intraventricular haemorrhage and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. 
  • If NICU nurses wrote to "Miss Decorum" .... 
  • Impact of a palliative care program on end-of-life care in a neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Implementing practice guidelines and education to improve care of infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome. 
  • Improving the Process of Enteral Nutrition Preparation With Milk Technicians: Perceptions of Cost, Time, and Quality. 
  • 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. 
  • Interactive behaviors of ethnic minority mothers and their premature infants. 
  • 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? 
  • Lessons learned. 
  • Management Practice and Mortality for Infants with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. 
  • Maternal recall of the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Maternal satisfaction with administering infant interventions in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Maternally administered interventions for preterm infants in the NICU: effects on maternal psychological distress and mother-infant relationship. 
  • Medication use in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Meningitis in preterm neonates: importance of cerebrospinal fluid parameters. 
  • Mentoring new nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit: impact on satisfaction and retention. 
  • Metoclopramide, H2 blockers, and proton pump inhibitors: pharmacotherapy for gastroesophageal reflux in neonates. 
  • Monitoring of cerebral oxygenation in the intensive care nursery. 
  • Mothers' Psychological Distress and Feeding of Their Preterm Infants. 
  • Mothers' stories about their experiences in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • 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 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. 
  • New antibiotic dosing in 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. 
  • Old and new: appropriate dosing for neonatal antifungal drugs in the nursery. 
  • PaCO2 in surfactant, positive pressure, and oxygenation randomised trial (SUPPORT). 
  • Palliative care in neonatal neurology: robust support for infants, families and clinicians. 
  • Poorer neurodevelopmental outcomes associated with cystoid macular edema identified in preterm infants in the intensive care nursery. 
  • 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. 
  • Preterm infants born at less than 31 weeks' gestation have improved growth in cycled light compared with continuous near darkness. 
  • 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. 
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparity in NICU Quality of Care Delivery. 
  • Radiation safety and protection of neonates in radiological examinations. 
  • Real-time, computer-assisted quantification of plus disease in retinopathy of prematurity at the bedside. 
  • Regional variation in antenatal corticosteroid use: a network-level quality improvement study. 
  • Rehospitalization for respiratory illness in infants of less than 32 weeks' gestation. 
  • 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 development in preterm infants. 
  • Rifampin use and safety in hospitalized infants. 
  • Risk Factors and In-Hospital Outcomes following Tracheostomy in Infants. 
  • Risk factors for postpartum depressive symptoms in low-income women with very low-birth-weight infants. 
  • Risk of fever and sepsis evaluations after routine immunizations in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • 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. 
  • Sedatives and Analgesics Given to Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units at the End of Life. 
  • Sepsis in young infants with congenital heart disease. 
  • Should Neonatologists Give Opinions Withdrawing Life-sustaining Treatment? 
  • Statistical power and neonatal nursing research statistics: knowing your "p" from your "SD". 
  • 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:. 
  • 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 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. 
  • The use of nitric oxide in neonatal care. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Underimmunization at discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Use and Safety of Erythromycin and Metoclopramide in Hospitalized Infants. 
  • Use of medications for gastroesophageal reflux at discharge among extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Very late onset infections in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • 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. 
  • Working together in the neonatal intensive care unit: provider perspectives. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Barker, Piers Christopher Andrew, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Cardiology
  • Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
  • Steinbach, William J., Professor of Pediatrics, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship