Publications by authors named "Herminia Uscanga-Carrasco"
Background: Aneurysmal malformation of the vein of Galen (AVMG) is a rare malformation of the intracranial venous system. The incidence is estimated at 1:10,000-25,0000 births. The clinical picture is very variable, in the neonatal period it includes seizures and heart failure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Impact of the use of an early neonatal sepsis calculator].
Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc
August 2021
Article Synopsis
- Early onset neonatal sepsis (EOS) is a significant public health issue, and unnecessary antibiotic treatment can worsen health outcomes; using an EOS risk calculator can help reduce this problem.
- A study compared antibiotic use and hospital stay durations in newborns before and after implementing the EOS risk calculator, finding that no significant difference in EOS diagnoses occurred between the two groups.
- Results showed that after using the EOS risk calculator, 46.7% of infants received antibiotics compared to 100% before its implementation, indicating the calculator's effectiveness in minimizing unnecessary antibiotic use.
[First newborn of mother with COVID-19 in a third level unit].
Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc
September 2020
Article Synopsis
- SARS-CoV-2 infection poses high risks to pregnant women and their newborns, with a case report from a hospital in Mexico detailing a neonate born to a COVID-19 positive mother.
- The male newborn, delivered at 34 weeks, needed respiratory support due to the effects of sedative medications the mother had received during delivery, but showed improvement during his hospital stay.
- Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in the newborn returned negative, raising questions about the possibility of vertical transmission of the virus from mother to child.
Objective: To identify the parameters of mechanical ventilation related to barotrauma and to identify associated diseases.
Material And Methods: There was a partial retrospective study which included all the files and/or newborns (NB) who were in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit during March 2003 to April 2008 met the inclusion criteria. Two groups were conformed, the group A, cases (those with barotrauma) and B controls (that did not show it).
Objective: To determine the prevalence of nosocomial infection (NI) in newborns (NB) as well as the etiology, frequency mortality related to these infections in a tertiary-care hospital.
Material And Methods: A retrospective epidemiological study was carried out with NB admitted to a tertiary-care neonatology hospital service from January 2006 to December 2008 who complied with selection criteria. All NB between the gestational ages of 25 to 44 weeks, NI supported by positive culture and either local or systemic infection were included.
Objective: To determine the variability of the vital signs (temperature, heart rate and respiratory frequency), skin coloration and peripheral oxygen saturation in critically ill preterm newborns (CI PTNB) before, during and after sponge bathing as well as to determine the possible presence of secondary complications of this procedure.
Material And Methods: We performed a quasi-experimental study (experimental, prospective, comparative and clinical study with intervention) May to December 2008, in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. We included CI PTNB of 0 to 28 days of extrauterine life who have practiced in the routine sponge bathing.
Introduction: The mechanical ventilator support (MVS) it is a procedure which improves survival of critically ill newborns (NB), but is not risk free one of them is tracheal damage reintubations by extubation failure. Knowledge that there is the medical literature is about preterm infant and there is not information about term NB.
Objective: To establish that factors are associated to the unsuccessful extubation in the term NB from 37 to 42 weeks of gestational age.