China News Service, Fuyang, June 22 (Liu Hao and Chen Huiyu) The baby "Little Eight" with a gestational age of 28 weeks and a weight of only 800 grams was born under the 72-day intensive care of the neonatal medical staff of Fuyang City Women and Children's Hospital in Anhui Province. He was discharged recently.
At the time of discharge, the weight of "Xiao Ba Zi" reached 2200 grams.
With a gestational age of 28 weeks, a weight of 800 grams, and living in 8 beds, this ultra-low weight baby is affectionately referred to by medical staff as "Little Eight Sons".
Medical staff take care of the "Little Eight Sons" Photo courtesy of Fuyang Women and Children Hospital
Li Shuai, director of the neonatal department of Fuyang Women and Children’s Hospital, introduced that ultra-low birth weight babies are premature babies with a birth weight of less than 1000 grams. The incidence rate in China is about 0.1%. Among all premature babies, ultra-premature babies with a gestational age of less than 28 weeks account for 0.6%. They are the most difficult group to be treated in hospitalized patients in the neonatology department. They need to go through "five checkpoints" after birth: breathing, circulation, digestion, nutrition, and infection. Every day of hospitalization is a challenge.
The "Little Eight Sons" had immature lungs and could not breathe spontaneously. After admission, he was given tracheal intubation pulmonary surfactant replacement therapy in a timely manner, and invasive ventilator and non-invasive ventilator assisted breathing to maintain her life.
The nurses worried that the long-term fixation of the ventilator tube would cause pressure damage to the skin of "Xiao Ba Zi", so they used a hydrocolloid dressing to protect her facial skin, and also used the rest time to personally knit a wool hat to put on her. On the one hand, it is used to keep warm and reduce the heat dissipation from the head; on the other hand, it is used to fix the ventilator tubing, which can be tightly tightened without pressing the skin.
The blood vessel wall of premature infants is thin, the veins are too thin, and the concentration of intravenous nutrient solution required for life support is relatively high. Under the leadership of head nurse Wang Na, the static therapy team quickly performed a peripheral central vein catheterization for "Little Eight Sons" (PICC), successfully solved a major problem in nursing and treatment.
"Little Bazi" slowly grew up in Fuyang City Women and Children's Hospital under the care of medical staff
"Xiao Ba Zi" has no normal swallowing reflex, no sucking force, and all the milk volume, the nurse can only rely on a long stomach tube for nasal feeding. In order to promote the baby's perfect sucking and swallowing functions and the development of gastrointestinal function, the nurses of the neonatal department apply the colostrum saved by the mother of "Little Eight Sons" to her mouth, which not only plays a role in digestive tract, respiratory mucosa and systemic immunity The protective effect also shortens the time from nasal feeding to full bowel feeding, which plays a good role in promoting the baby's growth and development.
After being admitted to the hospital, the changes in the condition of the "Little Eight Sons" all affected the hearts of the medical staff in the general department. The changes in breastfeeding and changes in urine and urine, every detail should not be ignored. Li Shuai said that because the baby was in the hospital for a long time and the mother and baby were separated for a long time, the humanistic care team of the department established a growth photo album for the "Little Eight Sons" and posted photos of her daily growth and development, disease changes and important medical treatment operations on the photo album. Here, the medical staff will also leave words of good wishes and encouragement to the baby.
After the condition of "Little Eight" was relatively stable, the neonatology team informed her parents to come for kangaroo care. As the name suggests, the parents hugged the baby to the chest like a kangaroo, and the continuous skin-to-skin contact made the baby feel To the heartbeat and breathing of the parents, thus making the baby more secure. (Finish)