Displaying items by tag: regional neonatal icu
Ashton Ayers was not expected to survive after an accident left her with a traumatic brain injury during her freshman year of high school. A decade later, Ayers defied the odds and graduated from the UAB School of Nursing.
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Death or severe brain bleeding in the first week after birth dropped from 27.4 percent to 15 percent after introduction of a bundle of evidence-based, potentially better practices for preterm infants. Median weight of the 820 infants studied was 1 pound, 10 ounces.
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Meet Debbie Morrow, the founder of the group Loving the Preemies, a group that crochets holiday-themed outfits each year for babies in UAB’s RNICU.
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UAB Women and Infants Center has been named a favorite in three categories by Birmingham Parent Magazine reader votes.
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For UAB’s tiniest patients, Thanksgiving will be a little more festive with turkey bottoms.
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When one doctor found herself in the NICU with her newborn baby, she had to learn to be a mother first and prepare for their journey.
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When a couple decided to get married in their newborn daughter’s RNICU room, the UAB community came together to pull off their wedding.
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Physicians from UAB travel to Zambia to identify low-cost interventions to prevent newborns from getting hypothermia.
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This microRNA is a biomarker for bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a disease that can lead to death or long-term disease in extremely low birth-weight infants.
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Babies are wearing red hats this month to shed light on congenital heart disease.
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A deployed father traveled 7,600 miles across 11 time zones to meet his son in UAB's Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
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The new Family Room will give families a space to rest and recharge while their children receive care.
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Wellness and healing for RNICU moms comes in many forms, including sewing Halloween costumes for their infants through UAB’s Institute for Arts in Medicine program.
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The Golden Week program developed by UAB’s Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit was recently recognized nationally for its standardized set of practices for premature infants, providing them with quality care in their first week of life.
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UAB is raising funds to hand out complimentary lifesaving infant CPR kits to caregivers of high risk infants.
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The UAB Women and Infants Center is among nearly a dozen organizations holding reunions for past NICU patients this spring.
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Antenatal corticosteroids given to high-risk moms are associated with better outcomes for babies born prematurely.
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UAB newborns are all on Santa’s nice list.
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An Iowa college student with dreams of being a physician gleaned invaluable experience and inspiration out of a short summer the intensive research and clinical environment offered through UAB’s Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Research Program.
A local health education nonprofit educates high school students on professional opportunities within rural health care.
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