TY - JOUR
T1 - State of the science
T2 - achievements and challenges across the spectrum of care for preterm infants.
AU - Bakewell-Sachs, Susan
AU - Blackburn, Susan
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - The spectrum of care for preterm infants includes the perinatal and immediate neonatal periods, the initial hospitalization period including neonatal intensive care, transition to discharge, and from discharge through the first year of life. Care issues are sometimes lifelong. Advances and achievements of the past 20 years, particularly during the perinatal period and in neonatal intensive care, have resulted in significant increases in survivability of even the smallest and least mature infants. Challenges remain, particularly in establishing evidence-based standards of nursing practice in areas such as transition to oral feedings, breastfeeding in the intensive-care nursery, and developmentally based care, and in reducing short- and long-term morbidities in children born prematurely. This article illustrates achievements and challenges across the spectrum of care for preterm infants in the 1st year of life.
AB - The spectrum of care for preterm infants includes the perinatal and immediate neonatal periods, the initial hospitalization period including neonatal intensive care, transition to discharge, and from discharge through the first year of life. Care issues are sometimes lifelong. Advances and achievements of the past 20 years, particularly during the perinatal period and in neonatal intensive care, have resulted in significant increases in survivability of even the smallest and least mature infants. Challenges remain, particularly in establishing evidence-based standards of nursing practice in areas such as transition to oral feedings, breastfeeding in the intensive-care nursery, and developmentally based care, and in reducing short- and long-term morbidities in children born prematurely. This article illustrates achievements and challenges across the spectrum of care for preterm infants in the 1st year of life.
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U2 - 10.1177/0884217503257342
DO - 10.1177/0884217503257342
M3 - Article
C2 - 14565749
AN - SCOPUS:0642279480
SN - 0884-2175
VL - 32
SP - 683
EP - 695
JO - Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN / NAACOG
JF - Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN / NAACOG
IS - 5
ER -