10 interesting facts about the neonatology, of which you are not sure

After birth, the woman remembers the good obstetrician, she thanked all his life for his baby. She just does not remember that her child met another doctor - neonatologist. From it also depended on the life and health of your baby. What does the neonatologist? 10 interesting facts about the profession.

This is the first doctor of the child. It neonatologist "meets" the baby, assess its condition, and can predict the development of pathologies and diseases. It decides on any medical manipulations associated with a newborn.

Neonatologists called "neonatologist". Because they are tiny, newborn patients. the neonatal period - from days zero to twenty-eight.

But neonatologists can watch the baby and more. If a baby is born with health problems, the neonatologist may even lead him to a year.

Neonatologists involved in caring for premature children. Thanks to the work neonatologist, 70% of babies born prematurely survive. Recently, there was an unprecedented case, neonatologists out the baby, who was born weighing just 268 g

Knowledge is not only limited to the neonatologist pediatrician. Their patients never complain about their health. Therefore, neonatologists versed in surgery, gastroenterology, cardiology, pulmonology, and possess equipment for the care of babies.

Neonatologists put the first estimate of the child. To do this, they use Apgar score - a rapid assessment of the condition of the newborn. According to her doctors can further understand their actions with a newborn.

They have another scale evaluation - scale Silverman. Apgar - the higher the score, the better. On a scale Silverman - is the opposite.

This is a young profession. It is separated apart from the pediatrics and obstetrics only at the end of XIX - at the beginning of XX. And in Ukraine, specialty pediatrician-neonatologist appeared only in 1987.

Neonatologist rarely takes the usual children's clinic. Most often it works in hospitals, perinatal centers and children's hospitals - that is where most of the tiny patients who need help "neonatologist".

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