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St. Cloud Hospital Successful at Brain Cooling Therapy for Infant
According to WQOW TV, St. Cloud Hospital has successfully cooled an infant to prevent or reduce the severity of brain injury. It is believed to be the first time a hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has been able to reduce brain injury through the brain cooling method. Oliver Manlove, son of Renee and Kenny Manlove, was delivered full term but was deprived of oxygen during birth. He was transferred by helicopter to St. Loud Hospital for cooling. The NICU team utilized the total body cooling therapy. Therapeutic body cooling or hypothermia has been used at St. Cloud Hospital since 2005 to treat adult cardiac arrest patients. Cooling an infant can reduce the severity of a brain injury. Brain injuries during birth can result in life-long complications such as cerebral palsy, as well as developmental problems. Doctors start to cool an infant as soon as possible, the sooner a baby is…
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Study Finds Iron Benefits Not Significant for Some Pregnant Women
According to MSNBC, a recent study found that taking iron supplements does not have as significant benefit for pregnant women who don’t already have iron-poor blood. The study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that anemic pregnant women boosted their iron levels by taking supplements but the women who had higher levels to begin with did not see any extra boost. Iron is essential to making hemoglobin, the component of red blood cells that carries oxygen throughout the body. A pregnant woman’s iron needs rise as her body produces greater volumes of blood for her and the fetus. A professor of human nutrition at Cornell University said that the gut senses when the body needs iron, and through gut responses the body absorbs iron better. According to the World Health Organization, fewer than one in five pregnant women in the U.S. were anemic in 2005. In other countries,…
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Birth Trauma
1 in 200 babies is born with some form of birth injury, and many of these cases may have been caused by medical negligence. Extreme care must be taken by health professionals when delivering a newborn child. Birth injuries can be the result of mishandling during or before the birthing process. Because of the soft skull and brain tissue, an infants head can be very easily injured. Some of the common birth injuries include Cerebral Palsy and Erbs Palsy also called Brachial Plexus Injury or Shoulder Dystocia. The C-Section or Cesearean birth process is used in situations where the birth process is not happening naturally or where the baby is not being born head first. If the doctor opts not to use a C-Section, in spite of potential complications and the child is injured there may be a legal claim. The Level download The Soloist buy Rock-A-Doodle trailer White Heat dvdrip…
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