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Abstract - (2021) Volume 10, Issue 2
Covid-19 and the Care of the Neonate
Katie Hanafin*Received: 19-Mar-2021 Published: 30-Mar-2021, DOI: 10.35248/2319-5584.21.10.e104
Abstract
Background
Covid-19 has caused a ripple effect of changes across all areas of healthcare, including care of Neonates. Initial thoughts were that vertical transmission was not possible but this is now in question. Neonates are a high risk population, for that reason extreme care must be taken to protect this vulnerable group of the population, whilst also provided family centered care within new, strict visiting regimes and rules. Objective: Highlight of the main issues surrounding neonates and covid-19. Discuss the likelihood of vertical transmission. Discuss the effect of Covid-19 on parents. Results: Case reports from Fenizia, Zamaniyan et al, Kirtsman et al, and Sisman et al, all suggest there is a risk of vertical transmission, although the percentage of cases seen are minimal. Those babies found to be positive were often asymptomatic or minimally affected by the virus. There has been a big change within hospitals regarding management of patients and patient/staff ratios for suspected/confirmed patients. This has had a multifactorial negative effect including tired, overworked staff, cuts in salaries for some due to the hospitals extra expenditure during the pandemic, staff being asked to work on wards they are unfamiliar with, and reduction in bed capacity for patients not affected by Covid-19.
Biography
Katie Hanafin is a highly experienced NICU nurse who after 10 years working in a level 3 unit in the UK, she retrained to become an Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner at Southampton University in 2014, qualifying with a Masters in Advanced Clinical Care – Neonatal Studies. Following qualification she worked on the Medical Rota in a busy Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for 4 years before moving to the Abu Dhabi to become the first Neonatal Nurse Practitioner in the UAE. 30th Neonatology and Primary Care Congress; Amsterdam, Netherlands; October 28 -29, 2020.
Abstract Citation
Katie Hanafin, Covid – 19 and the care of the neonate, Euro Neonatology 2020, 30th Neonatology and Primary Care Congress; Amsterdam, Netherlands; October 28 -29, 2020.
(https://neonatalresearch.conferenceseries.com/abstract/2020/covid-19-and-the-care-of-the-neonate)
Citation: Katie H (2021) Covid-19 and the Care of the Neonate. Glob J Agric Health Sci 10:e104.
Copyright: © 2021 Katie H. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.