Small and Sick Baby

The following five videos will each cover a different topic. Each of their focus is on how to care for preterm and sick babies.

Complications of Prematurity

• Complications in Prematurity, Pakistan: Acute and chronic complications which may occur in premature newborns.

Feeding a Preterm Infant

• Feeding a Preterm Infant, Pakistan: A review of the benefits of breastmilk and different feeding methods for preterm infants.
  •  Enteral Feeding of Preterm Infant
  • Guidelines on Optimal Feeding of Low Birth-weight Infants in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Hypoglycemia Screening & Management

• Hypoglycemia Screening and Management, Kenya & Tanzania: Signs and symptoms alerting health care professionals that newborns have hypoglycemia.
  • Helping  Understand Hypoglycemia
  • Taking a Heel Blood Sample
  • Additional resources for providers:
    • Clinical Report—Postnatal Glucose Homeostasis in
      Late-Preterm and Term Infants
    • Recommendations from the Pediatric Endocrine Society for Evaluation
      and Management of Persistent Hypoglycemia in Neonates, Infants,
      and Children
    • Seminars in Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

Immunizations

• Essential Newborn Care: Immunisations, Pakistan: The importance of routine newborn immunizations in Pakistan.
  • Immunization Schedule
  • Vaccine schedule India
  • Routine Immunization Schedule

Neonatal Sepsis

• Neonatal Infections / Sepsis: More than just treating with antibiotics.
  
  • Preventative measures that can be taken to reduce newborn mortality rates signs and diagnostics to look for in newborns with infections/sepsis.