Talk:Neonatal intensive care unit/Archive 1

Needs more statistics==

Survival rates, leading causes of death, like NEC, etc. Maybe someone with research interests in the area could have a look? The current page reads too much like a brochure from a waiting room. Dan (talk) 23:10, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

NICU Levels

Where is the discussion of the different (US) standardized NICU levels? This is how NICU are normally distinguished, and is why people (i.e. pregnant families) would be coming to this page! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cherylrenee (talk • contribs) 21:12, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

3 years later I ran across this and began adding the levels, it needs more depth and I hope to add more with references soon Je.rrt (talk) 19:15, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

References

This article needs one or more references to cover the content, added the tag. --FloNight 04:11, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Title

Could someone change the title with the standard capitalization for Wikipedia? I would myself, but I don't know how. 12.206.235.170 04:09, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

When the concept/generic noun appears in the text of medical literature it is generally left lowercase. EG here. Sohelpme 21:36, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

History

Hard to believe there's no mention of Coney Island anywhere in the article. See excellent, detailed article at <http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1994/2/1994_2_24.shtml>. (For the record, I'm leaving this comment here, rather than editing the article myself, because I refuse to sign in to wikipedia on principle, even though I have a login.)

This article is incorrect to state that these type of units are often called special baby care units (SBCUs). The difference between NICUs and SBCUs is the level of care that the patients need; care provision by SBCUs is less intensive than that of NICUs. Additionally, babies treated in NICUs may be transferred to a SBCU as their health improves.

Excuse me but my two twin sisters were in the NICU and its called the NICU and the SBCU is when the baby is only a week or so early.

Dr. August Jung

I can't believe there isn't information about Dr. August Jung. He started saving babies in the 1950s and started the NICU in the University of Utah hospital. Many of the early technologies were developed by this wonderful doctor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.253.45.141 (talk) 18:40, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

NICU or SCBU?

The article is called "Neonatal intensive care unit" or NICU, but the British SCBU acronym is used far more often. Can this be revised so that SCBU is used only when specifically referencing the NICUs in Britain? Americans, especially former preemies such as myself (Class of '79 - '80), use NICU. Also, a search of both NICU and SCBU in Wikipedia's Search area routes the user to "Neonatal intensive care unit". Therefore, the acronym used through the majority of the article should reflect the name of the article. Also, the acronym NICU is most often pronounced here in the States as "enai-seeyou". Of the nearly hundred times I've heard NICU pronounced, I've heard it pronounced "Nickyou" only twice. The rest of the time was "enai-seeyou"while in Britain it is prounounces as ((Nickyou)).

Opinions?

Mintchocolatebear (talk) 07:08, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree with the changing of the acronym from SCBU to NICU, because it should reflect the name of the article. But, I disagree with how to say it. I have several friends and family members in the medical industry, and all of them refer to it as Nickyou.

pdhharris (talk) 10:55, 15 July 2010 (GMT -08:00)

Err, in the UK a NICU is a NICU and a SCBU is a SCBU. NICUs provide Intensive care, SCBUs do not. Every maternity unit has a SCBU, while NICUs serve several maternity units. And in my experience it's pronounced nickoo (no Y) :) see e.g. http://www.babycentre.co.uk/baby/prembaby/scbu/ 91.84.95.81 (talk) 00:16, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Merger proposal

Maybe I'm my ignorance of medical equipment is showing but these articles seem to be quite similar, down to the pictures used. -- Esemono (talk) 07:47, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Surely, equipment used in the NICU may very well be merged with it. Mikael Häggström (talk) 08:27, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

This page is terrible

I'm a NICU RN (almost NNP) and this page is uncited at best, biased towards britain and completely not factual in places. It needs a complete overhaul. I'm going to start working on it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sapphiremind (talk • contribs) 02:53, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Proposed structure will be:

• History
• Levels
• Patient population/Common conditions treated
• Equipment
• Personnel
• Research

I welcome anyone who would like to help me get this page to being some semblance of presentable. Sapphiremind (talk) 03:18, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Feel free to add whatever you can, especially for those sections that are currently not covered at all. Mikael Häggström (talk) 15:55, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Yes, please feel free to edit the parts you find factually incorrect so it agrees with how you see it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fatoomch (talk • contribs) 20:49, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Source dump

I'm cleaning up promotion at March of Dimes and here are some formatted references:

• Goodman DG, Fisher ES, Little GA, Stukel TA, Chang CH, Schoendorf KS. "The relation between the availability of neonatal intensive care and neonatal mortality". N Engl J Med. 2002 (346): 1538–1544. PMID 12015393.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• between 1980 and 1995, the number of NICU beds grew by 138 percent and the number of neonatologists by 268 percentHowell E, Richardson D, Ginsburg P, Foot B (2002). "Deregionalization of Neonatal Intensive Care in Urban Areas". American Journal of Public Health. 92 (1): 119–124. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• one in 10 babies born in the United States is admitted to a NICU, many of them because of premature birthKornhauser M, Schneiderman R (2010). "How Plans Can Improve Outcomes and Cut Costs for Preterm Infant Care". Managed Care Magazine. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

Thanks. Jesanj (talk) 19:36, 15 October 2011 (UTC)