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Spring 2012
The surgical repair of congenital heart defects (CHDs) often requires a bloodless/motionless field achieved by arresting the neonatal heart and exposing it to a period of ischemia. Metabolic manipulation, such as suppression of fatty acid (FA) oxidation, improves post-ischemic functional recovery...
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Hemodynamic Changes During High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation in Newborn Piglets with Respiratory Distress Syndrome
DownloadFall 2019
Respiratory failure is common in critically ill neonates, with refractory cases often needing high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV). Volume guarantee mode has been added to some HFOV ventilators for theoretical better maintenance of normocapnia. There is little information on the systemic...
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Spring 2019
Dramatic maturational changes occur in heart energy metabolism in the fetal to newborn transition, most predominantly marked by a decrease in glycolysis and an increase in fatty acid oxidation which then becomes the major energy providing substrate for the heart after birth. However, in the...
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Fall 2021
This phenomenological study explores the lived experience of the nurse’s touch in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Touch is deeply embedded within NICU nursing, sometimes so taken-for-granted as to seem invisible, but implied in nearly every nursing gesture and pursuit. Inserting an...