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5 Care of high-risk and sick infants

Objectives

When you have completed this unit you should be able to:

Recognise high-risk infants and sick infants.
Provide general care to sick infants.
List the observations needed in these infants.
Diagnose and treat shock.
Diagnose and treat fits.
Diagnose and treat acidosis.

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5-1 How can infants be classified on the basis of risk?

5-2 What is a well infant?

5-3 What is a high-risk infant?

5-4 Which infants should be regarded as high risk?

5-5 What should you do for a high-risk infant?

5-6 What is a sick infant?

5-7 What are the causes of a sick infant?

5-8 What should you do for a sick infant?

5-9 How do you resuscitate a sick infant?

5-10 How do you diagnose the cause of the problem?

5-11 What general supportive care is needed by a sick infant?

5-21 What are problem-orientated notes?

5-22 How do you diagnose shock?

5-12 What should you not do if the infant is sick?

5-23 How can you measure the capillary filling time?

5-13 Why is excessive handling bad for sick infants?

5-14How should you monitor a high-risk or sick infant?

5-24 What are the causes of shock?

5-15What observations should you make in a high-risk or sick infant?

5-25 How do you treat shock?

5-26 How can you recognise a fit in a newborn infant?

5-16What is the importance of weighing a sick infant daily?

5-17How often should the observations be made?

5-27 What are the important causes of fits?

5-18How should the observations be documented?

5-28 How do you treat a fit?

5-19Which observation chart should be used?

5-29 What is acidosis?

5-20What additional records are important?

5-30 What types of acidosis are important?

5-31 How does the body try to correct a metabolic acidosis?

5-32 How is acidosis diagnosed?

5-33 How do you treat metabolic acidosis?

5-34 How do you treat respiratory acidosis?

5-35 Case study 1

5-36 Case study 2

5-37 Case study 3

5-38 Case study 4

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Introduction ( 0 items )
1 Neonatal asphyxia and resuscitation ( 34 items )
1A Skills workshop: Neonatal resuscitation ( 15 items )
2 Assessing gestational age and size at birth ( 29 items )
2A Skills workshop: Gestational age and weight ( 10 items )
3 The routine care of normal infants ( 46 items )
3A Skills workshop: Clinical history and exam ( 12 items )
4 Feeding normal infants ( 46 items )
5A Skills workshop: Clinical notes and observations ( 17 items )
6 Feeding sick or high-risk infants ( 35 items )
6A Skills workshop: Feeding sick or high-risk infants ( 12 items )
7 Temperature control and hypothermia ( 21 items )
7A Skills workshop: Temperature control and hypothermia ( 14 items )
8 Glucose control and hypoglycaemia ( 23 items )
8A Skills workshop: Glucose control and hypoglycaemia ( 12 items )
9 Jaundice, anaemia and polycythaemia ( 42 items )
9A Skills workshop: Jaundice and phototherapy ( 8 items )
10 Respiratory distress and apnoea ( 44 items )
10A Skills workshop: Respiratory distress & apnoea ( 13 items )
11 Oxygen therapy ( 52 items )
11A Skills workshop: Oxygen therapy ( 16 items )
12 Infection ( 55 items )
13 Trauma and bleeding ( 33 items )
14 Birth defects ( 33 items )
15 Communication ( 39 items )

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