Thermoregulation
The ambient temperature at which oxygen consumption and energy expenditure are at the minimum to sustain vital activities.
What is a Neutral Thermal Environment?
One strategy for this could include teaching parents about their baby's normal growth and development, teaching about infant cues.
What is promoting attachment and bonding?
During this period of activity, the highly alert and exploratory.
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What is the first period of activity (birth - 30 minutes)
**Daily Double response: Breastfeeding, promote attachment and bonding, support FCC, etc...
The reason that most infants don't get a perfect 10 APGAR score
What is acrocyanosis?
Respiratory rate increases and metabolic rate increases in the neonate.
What are responses to cold stress / thermogenesis / heat production?
Flexed posture and Non-Shivering Thermogenesis
What are ways that neonates will increase heat production (aka: "thermogenesis")?
Face can be seen, head in a sniffing position, head turned to one side, chest to chest position, caregiver is slightly upright, mom/baby are being observed, education for parents.
What are ways to promote safe positioning to prevent Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse?
This period last about 6-8 hours (however it may be more or less depending on the newborn). During this time, the newborn requires careful assessment
What is neonatal/newborn transition?
Only 10% of newborns require this.
What is neonatal resuscitation?
Greater milk supply at Day 4, smoother transition to newborn life, increased immune protection, decreased pain in mother and infant
What are some of the benefits to Skin-to-skin contact?
Overheating, disease processes, infection, dehydration
What are causes of HYPER-thermia?
These following statements are integral to this broad concept: Childbirth is seen as wellness and a normal event, the hospital team assists the family in making informed choices for care, labour & birth occur in the same room. It also include collaboration, information sharing, participation, respect and dignity.
What is Family-Centred Care?
BEFORE birth, the lungs are an area of ________ pressure.
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This vasodilator helps the arterioles to dilate after birth and is also the basis for the assessments and interventions provided post-birth.
What is HIGH pressure?
What is oxygen?
(Remember: Ventilation is key to a healthy transition!)
These are small, glistening white specks on the hard palate and gum margins.
What are Epstein's Pearls?
These parental interventions promote trust and brain development in the growing infant.
What is responsiveness and/or healthy attachment?
36.5-37.2 degrees Celsius
What is the normal axilla temperature of a newborn?
Coagulation factors II, VII, IX, and X cannot be synthesized in fetal liver because of the lack of THIS being present in the sterile newborn gut.
What is Vitamin K?
This shunt gets closed after birth because of increasing pressures on the left side of the heart.
What is the foramen ovale?
Most infants requiring resuscitation will respond to this (without needing further resuscitation)
What is Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV or bag/mask ventilation)?
This hormone is produced by the placenta and decreases rapidly in the mother and infant after birth
What is progesterone?
A baby is placed near an air conditioner during their head to toe assessment.
What is losing heat by convection?
Assessment for this condition can include checking the infant's eyes with a penlight (corneal light reflex).
What is strabismus?
Type II Epithelial cells start to produce this at around 24 weeks gestational age.
What is Surfactant?
This sign of respiratory distress is an expiratory sound caused by sudden closure of the glottis during expiration (in an attempt to maintain residual capacity and prevent alveolar atelectasis)
What is grunting?
Tremors, jitteriness, uncoordinated suck, high pitched cry.
What are signs of neonatal hypoglycemia?