Effectiveness of individualized neurodevelopmental care in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU).
Acta Paediatr Suppl
; 416: 21-30, 1996 Oct.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-8997444
ABSTRACT
The individual infant's neurodevelopmental process provides an integrative framework for the delivery of medical care needed to assure the infant's survival and quality of outcome. The infant's neurobehavioral functioning and expression provides an opportunity for caregivers to estimate the individual infant's current strengths, vulnerabilities and threshold to disorganization, as well as to identify the infant's strategies in collaborating in his or her best progression. This perspective supports caregivers in seeing themselves in a relationship with the infant, and in considering opportunities to enhance the infant's strengths and reduce apparent stressors in collaboration with the infant and the family. The results of several randomized studies supporting the effectiveness of such a neurodevelopment approach to NICU care will be presented, and suggest implications for staff education and nursery-wide implementation.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Patient Care Planning
/
Infant, Premature
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Intensive Care, Neonatal
Type of study:
Clinical_trials
Limits:
Humans
/
Newborn
Language:
En
Journal:
Acta Paediatr Suppl
Year:
1996
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Estados Unidos