The Future of the Special Care Baby Unit :: 28/03/2012
The Future of the Special Care Baby Unit
Event Date
28/03/2012
Location
Fairmount House, York
SIG
Physiological Measurement SIG
One in every nine babies in the UK is born premature or sick. That means that over 80,000 babies every year find themselves spending time in a special care baby unit. Nowadays around 80% of babies born weighing less than 1.5kg survive, compared to around 40% in the 1960s.
Not only has careful nursing been integral to this improvement, but also new instruments and better monitoring. Significant advances in medical technologies often have to the further modified for the neonatal environment where the preterm baby is different from the full term baby.
This event will look at how technology has evolved for the special care baby unit and consider what a special care baby unit may look like in the future. It will bring together the multi disciplinary team that works within the neonatal field to discuss developments in areas ranging from instrumentation, to signal or imaging processing, to equipment management and training.
More information here.