Maternal Diseases and Treatment for Mothers and Children

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 642

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Department of Obstetrics and Perinatology, Medical University of Lublin, 20-954 Lublin, Poland
Interests: pregnancy; GDM; hypertension; endometriosis; ovarian tumor; preterm delivery
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Department of Neonatology, Canberra Hospital, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Interests: neonatal and perinatal medicine; epidemiology of prematurity; quality of care in neonatal intensive care units; neurodevelopmental outcome of premature infants; neonatal abstinence syndrome
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are currently organizing a Special Issue entitled “Maternal Diseases and Treatment for Mothers and Children” in Healthcare.

Maternal and infant health is a very important, interesting and complicated part of medicine, which takes responsibility for a pregnant woman and her newborn. Researchers and practitioners in these fields are searching for new solutions in the management of diseases affecting the mother and her child, including diagnosis, prevention and treatment. Developing strategies for reducing the risk factors of adverse pregnancy outcomes and acute and long-term complications, as well as understanding the cost of possible future management are pivotal. This Special Issue is open to submissions concerning perinatal medicine, with a focus on recent and novel topics. The keywords listed below provide an outline of some of the possible areas of interest.

Dr. Dominik Dłuski
Prof. Dr. Abdel-Latif Mohamed
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • obstetrics
  • diagnostics
  • management
  • pregnancy
  • prenatal testing
  • GDM
  • USG
  • blood tests
  • FGR
  • hypertension in pregnancy

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Voluntary Neonatal Medication Incident Reporting—A Single Centre Retrospective Analysis
by Sunaina Nundeekasen, Joanne McIntosh, Laurence McCleary, Cathryn O’Neill, Tejasvi Chaudhari and Mohamed E. Abdel-Latif
Healthcare 2024, 12(21), 2132; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12212132 - 25 Oct 2024
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Background: Medication errors in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are prevalent, with dosage and prescription errors being the most common. Aims: To identify the common medication errors reported over twelve years using a voluntary, nonanonymous incident reporting system (RiskMan clinical incident [...] Read more.
Background: Medication errors in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are prevalent, with dosage and prescription errors being the most common. Aims: To identify the common medication errors reported over twelve years using a voluntary, nonanonymous incident reporting system (RiskMan clinical incident reporting information system) at an Australian tertiary NICU. Methods: This was a single-centre cohort study conducted at a tertiary NICU. All medication-related incidents (errors) reported prospectively through the RiskMan online voluntary reporting database from January 2010 to December 2021 were included. The medication incidents were grouped into administration, prescription, pharmacy-related, and others, which included the remaining uncommon incidents. Results: Over the study period, 583 medication errors were reported, including administration-related (41.3%), prescription-related (24.5%), pharmacy-related (10.1%), and other errors (24%). Most incidents were reported by nursing and midwifery staff (77%) and pharmacists (17.5%). Most outcomes were minor or insignificant (98%), with only a few resulting in major or significant harm. There was one extreme incident that may have contributed to the death of a neonate and nine moderate incidents. Conclusions: Our results demonstrate that medication errors are common and highlight the need to support improvement initiatives and implement existing evidence-based interventions in routine practice to minimise medication errors in the NICU. Full article
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