neonatal
/ˌniːə(ʊ)ˈneɪt(ə)l
/adjective
Relating to newborn children (or other mammals): special attention is given to mortality in the neonatal period...
- High risk obstetrics and neonatal intensive care are high cost, low volume specialties.
- And few situations could be more fraught than pre-term or neonatal intensive care.
- The team studied 150 preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units.
Derivatives
neonatally
- It was shown that the specific tolerance to skin grafts in rat could be achieved by transferring T-enriched thoracic duct lymphocytes from neonatally tolerized rats to sublethally irradiated syngeneic recipients.
- In a subsequent study, we demonstrated that Min / + mice exposed neonatally to PhIP directly or via breast milk were particularly susceptible.
- We have now extended these studies to investigate the induction of mutants and micronuclei in mice treated neonatally with ddI or ddI in combination with AZT.
neonatologist
- PS is consultant paediatrician and neonatologist at Glan Clwyd Hospital, which provides a neonatal intensive care service for North Wales.
- Bilious vomiting in newborns is an urgent condition that requires the immediate involvement of a team of pediatric surgeons and neonatologists for perioperative management.
- In Neonatology Clinic, the same neonatologist and nurse practitioner follow an infant, in cooperation with his local physician, until the infant's care can be fully transferred to the local physician.
neonatology
- Advances in neonatology and pediatric anesthesia now have made it possible to perform cleft repair surgery during the neonatal period.
- Fortunately, advances in obstetrics and neonatology, the branch of pediatrics that deals with newborns, have improved the chances for survival for even these smallest babies.
- He was one of the last professors of paediatrics to combine general paediatric skills with an academic interest in neonatology, and he inspired students and trainees with his enthusiasm for teaching.