Purpose: The objective of this article was to present our experience in successfully managing a variety of abdominal cysts in newborns and infants using a mini-invasive technique performed in 8 cases using an umbilical laparoscopic port incision.
Methods: Assisted laparoscopic excision using an umbilical port incision was performed in 8 cases. Six were neonates (5 ovarian cysts and one hepatic cyst) and 2 were infants (6-months old with intestinal duplication and 11-months old with lymphatic malformation).
Results: The procedure was performed with ease and was successful in all 8 cases. Oral feeding was started early after the surgical intervention. Seven patients were discharged the next day. The last case was discharged on the fifth day after surgery because of intestinal resection.
Conclusion: This proposed mini-invasive technique using the umbilical port incision proved to be less invasive, easier, and less technically demanding than the classic laparoscopic approach and, hence, may be applied to different abdominal cystic pathologies in newborns and infants.
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J Pediatr Nurs
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University of Padua, Laboratory of Studies and Evidence Based Nursing, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Padua, Italy.
Purpose: The primary challenge in infant care is developing a comprehensive, rapid, and reliable assessment tool that is minimally dependent on subjective evaluations and applicable in various inpatient settings. This study aims to develop and assess the structural validity of the Infant Nursing Assessment Scale (INA), enabling a comprehensive evaluation of hospitalized newborns and infants.
Design And Methods: A development and validation study based on cross-sectional design was undertaken.
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Frontier Nursing University, United States of America.
Over 2005-2019, the number of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) grew by 10%, and the number of NICU beds increased by 30%. This expansion in intensive care has raised concerns over unwarranted intensive care admissions. In this study, we examine whether the greater supply of NICUs causally raises admission rates.
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School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
This study aimed to investigate the direct association between domestic violence and the indirect association of exposure through pregnancy, delivery, and neonatal risk factors with severe maternal morbidity (SMM). The target population of this case-control study included all women who gave birth in the hospitals of the Torbat Heidarieh University of Medical Science from June 2018 to May 2020. A total of 123 mothers with SMM according to the World Health Organization criteria were selected as cases, and 127 mothers who did not meet the World Health Organization criteria were included in the control group.
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Department of Clinical Sciences, Health Economics Unit, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Background: In the last three decades, the increasing trend in female employment in Bangladesh has been critically analyzed from a socioeconomic point of view; however, its impact on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices has yet to be systematically reviewed. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to investigate the association between these variables.
Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted in PubMed, Medline, Web of Science, Embase, CINAHL, and Google Scholar to retrieve relevant records with no restriction of publication period.
PLoS One
January 2025
Centre for Intervention Science and Maternal Child Health (CISMAC), Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Background: Timely initiation of and exclusive breastfeeding have been recommended as key interventions to enable countries to attain the sustainable development target of reducing neonatal mortality to no more than 12 deaths per 1000 live births and to reduce mortality of children under 5 years to no more than 25 deaths per 1000 live births.
Methods: We conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial with the main objective to assess the effect of an integrated package consisting of: peer counseling, mobile phone messages, and mama kits on promoting health facility births between January 2018 and February 2019, in Lira district, Northern Uganda. In this article, we assessed the effect of the intervention on our two secondary objectives: timely initiation of and exclusivity of breastfeeding.
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