Chief Quality Officer & Director of Clinical Care Boston MedFlight Mansfield, Massachusetts, United States
Caring for critically ill newborns and young infants can be a stressful and high risk encounter for all involved. Many teams work in environments where newly born patients are cared for by specialty providers and teams, but that can create a false confidence. The neonatal period extends to 28 days of life, and nearly all of us will be called to manage critically ill babies who are born outside the hospital or who are discharged and return for emergency care. This presentation will help to prepare you for this eventuality by providing a physiological foundation and simple algorithmic approach to the resuscitation, differential diagnosis, and initial management of very young, very ill patients.
Learning Objectives:
state the three most common causes of catastrophic illness in the neonate
Describe a mnemonic for differential diagnosis of undifferentiated neonatal critical illness
compare and contrast initial resuscitation principles for neonatal and non-neonatal patients
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