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Critical Elements of Care for Low Birth Weight Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduate

DIRECTIONS: You can download the Low Birth Weight Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduate by its entirety or by various sections (all documents are in pdf format ).

Sections

1. Introduction and Background

• How to use this Document
• Population
• Background

2. Health and Neurodevelopmental Supervision Grid

3. Critical Elements of Care by Age of Child

• Nursery Discharge Plan and Establishing Primary Care
• From 1 Month to 1 Year: Infancy
• From 1 to 5 Years: Early Childhood
• From 5 to 13 Years: Late Childhood
• From 13 to 21 Years: Adolescence

4. Health and Neurodevelopmental Supervision for the Low Birth Weight Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduate

• Health Outcomes
• Neurodevelopmental Outcomes - Major Sequelae of
  Low Birth Weight
• Neurodevelopmental Outcomes - Minor Sequelae of
  Low Birth Weight
• Neurodevelopmental Evaluation
• Family

5. References and Further Reading

6. Appendices

• AAP Reccomendations for Preventive Care
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge Information Guidelines
• Hearing Loss Risk Factors
• Neonatal Risk Factors - Biologic and Environmental
• Neurodevelopmental Screening and Tests
• Recommendations for Car Seat Positioning
• Local and Community Resources
  • Family Resources Coordinators and Children with Special Health Needs Coordinators
  • Neurodevelopmental Centers
• Glossary of Abbreviations in this Document

Companion parent materials available:

• Watching Your Low Birth Weight Child Grow (Parent Tips, 220 Kb)  

Fairly detailed text with information from infancy through 3 years of age.
• Was Your Baby Born Early? Was Your Baby Born Small? (79 kb)


Simpler, shorter message, designed for families who may not choose to get child health and development information by extensive reading. 3 pages.

 

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