sofiam

sofiam

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About sofiam

sofiam has 6 years experience and specializes in neonatal.


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  1. Prevent Hypothermia PT

    Hi everyone! My unit only receives PT > 32w but soon will start receiving PT >28 w. Based on your experience, what strategies, material and equipment do you use and prefere to prevent heat loss in LBW after delivery and at the inicial stage in ...
  2. OG tube

    But aren´t the new borns nasal respirators !? Doesn´t the NG tube make them more difficult to breed?
  3. neonatal transfusion policy, PLEASE HELP

    Sorry about this question, but there is any cientific reason for this???
  4. OG tube

    HI! How often do you change your OG Tube?
  5. Hi! That´s exactly what we do here...And all our preparations and changes are sterile and made by 2 nurses in the afternoon shift every 24hours... All the connections are protected with a sterile field and when we need to do medication (on the centra...
  6. Hi! I know that some units put their tubbing and connections from central lines outside the incubator, because of the humidity and warm environment inside that may help bacterias coloninzing them... How do you do in your unit? Do you have any cient...
  7. How do you warm your bottle - feeding?

    But how long does it take to warm a 90 ml of formula in a botlle?
  8. How do you warm your bottle - feeding?

    We warm it because like I give you more news when the machines starts working in our unit...
  9. How do you warm your bottle - feeding?

    The machine supposedly will be always working - 24h/7d! - because its not individual for each baby, you may warm about max. of 10 bottles at the same time. And the machine has a termostat that keep it always on the programed temp, eg: 37ºC. In our un...
  10. How do you warm your bottle - feeding?

    In our unit If it is just a litlle of milk, we do it under the warm water but if dont we do it on the microwave, but i and my colleagues dont agree and im trying to change it .... We now have the possibility of having a machine that warms the bottl...
  11. Developmental care

    hi| whats your opinion and experience about the results of using this kind of philosophy in nicu? and what about the team; do they had adhered well when it was implemented? were doing " developmental care" of course , but not quite official... im try...
  12. How to treat umbilical cord?

    We do tub baths with the cord still on.After the bath we put 70º alcool .
  13. How to treat umbilical cord?

    HI! I my unit we use alcool 70º once a day, after the bath, but i´ve been reading some contradiction literature... Some says to dont apply anything, others to apply iodopovidone, clorhexidine, ... Wthats your experience on this? And when they have u...
  14. How to deal with RSV

    HI! Our Kids (comming for home after discharge) with respiratory infections are all in to goticula isolation measures. Most of them after cultures reveals RSV. And we kept the goticula isolation measures and adding contact isolation measures. How do...
  15. Nosocomial infection control

    Hi! When you change your vent tracheas, gastric tube,babys incubator, - q72h, q 5d, q 7d, SOS?