Centered Development Neonatal Care: Units NIDCAP

Identifier:  TFG:848

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TFG848

Authors:  Cheza Manrique, Cristina

Abstract:
Abstract Nowadays from 5% to 18% of the births that take place in a year are premature. Still now this percentage has not been managed to be reduce, due to the new situations of risk, such as the age of gestation of the mothers or the use of assisted reproduction technologies. However, the survival of the most premature ones, it has been managed to increase between (22-24 weeks of gestation) thanks to the technological and therapeutic advances, together with the cares based on a more humanized philosophy. Therefore a new methodology based on cares to value the integral needs of a premature, has been developed by Dr H. Als, by focusing on their environment which surrounds it, the link with his family, the decrease of interventions and stress. Dr. Als baptized these cares as NIDCAP's (Newborn Individualized Development Care and Assessment Program), which are based on a constant observation of the premature baby by staff trained to counter reduce the harmful effects in the cerebral development of the premature baby. With this descriptive documentary study by a bibliographical review of publications, we analysed the most current scientific literature of the database most emphasized. This was carried out with the aim to describe the current condition of taking care of the premature newborn children in the units NIDCAP and analysing the results of the investigations done in these units. In spite of the favourable results towards the philosophy NIDCAP, so much for the clinical improvements of the premature babies together with the well-being of their families and the satisfaction of the sanitary staff with the success of these cares; we have concluded that a major investigation is necessary in the field of premature caring. This is the result of a lack of a major number of studies with results of investigation has prevented getting a major scientific reliability with regard to the benefits that we can manage to offer with this methodology of more humanized cares. Keywords: Centered Development and Family Care, NIDCAP, Neonatal Nursing, Premature Newborn, Neonatal Intensive Care Units.