Explore: Neonatal Emergencies

receive additional care before being discharged. Neonatal refers to the first 28 days of life. Neonatal care, a.k.a. specialized nurseries or intensive

address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly

variety of diagnostic tests. Prolonged neonatal jaundice is serious and should be followed up promptly. Severe neonatal jaundice may indicate the presence

medical emergency and may require immediate first aid, emergency room care, surgery, or care by a physician or nurse. Not all medical emergencies are life-threatening;

deployed automatically; those are usually pediatric emergencies, patients who are unconscious, emergencies including neurological or cardiovascular conditions

dioxide in neonatal infants to ensure that the level is not too high (hypercarbia) or too low is important for improving outcomes for neonates in intensive

Neonatal bowel obstruction (NBO) or neonatal intestinal obstruction is the most common surgical emergency in the neonatal period. It may occur due to

Neonatal resuscitation, also known as newborn resuscitation, is an emergency procedure focused on supporting approximately 10% of newborn children who

during their first few months of life, known as neonatal myasthenia or more specifically transient neonatal myasthenia gravis. Diagnosis can be supported

neurologic sequelae in the immediate neonatal period, or evidence of multiorgan system dysfunction in the immediate neonatal period. Hypoxic damage can occur