Tag: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
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Pediatrics and theatrics
Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Doctors and interns in the cafeteria. Photo by Jack Delano. 1942. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 1. Initiation. I had had a busy night on call in the city’s largest women’s hospital. I was a second-year pediatric resident assigned to the Neonatal Intensive Care…
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The incubator
MAS Ahmed Natasja Vandepitte London The Nursling, by Pierre Budin, translated by William Maloney. London: Caxton Publishing Co.; 1907. The incubator is a common sight in every Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Its history is of interest because of its influence on patient care and on the ensuing societal change. Babies were an…
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When did you last let your heart decide?
Sukanya Sam Chennai, India This woman in labor is not my patient. But the nurses worriedly tell me that the baby’s heartbeat could not be localized. Both handheld Doppler machines had broken down in the labor room unit of our small tertiary hospital. I was the resident on duty. I use the Pinard’s stethoscope, my…