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- Title
Early Neonatal Special Care Units and Their Scientific Achievements.
- Authors
Obladen, Michael
- Abstract
Treatment of sick neonates originated in maternity and foundling hospitals in the 19th century. Nosocomial infections and difficult logistics of wet-nursing prevented admission of neonates in most children's hospitals well into the 20th century. In this article, 31 hospitals are described, all located in large cities, in which preterm and sick neonates were treated before the Great Depression. Even though mostly initiated by private charity, these institutions performed research right from the start. Topics included warming and feeding preterm infants, collecting and distributing human milk, developing and storing breast milk substitutes, prevention of rickets and nosocomial infections, maternal and public education regarding infection control, pathoanatomic characterisation of diseases and malformations and epidemiologic studies of infant mortality. These pioneering hospitals, their founding dates, researchers and classic publications are presented in a table. Copyright © 2012 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
NEWBORN infant care; FOUNDLINGS; HOSPITAL care; NOSOCOMIAL infections in children; CHARITIES; BREAST milk; RICKETS prevention; INFANT mortality
- Publication
Neonatology (16617800), 2012, Vol 102, Issue 2, p89
- ISSN
1661-7800
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000336285