scholarly journals A Cloud-Based Healthcare Infrastructure for Neonatal Intensive-Care Units

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Migliorelli ◽  
Annalisa Cenci ◽  
Michele Bernardini ◽  
Luca Romeo ◽  
Sara Moccia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Data Transfer ◽  
Medical Attention ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Huge Data ◽  
Preterm Babies

Abstract Intensive medical attention of preterm babies is crucial to avoid short-term and long-term complications. Within neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), cribs are equipped with electronic devices aimed at: monitoring, administering drugs and supporting clinician in making diagnosis and offer treatments. To manage this huge data flux, a cloud-based healthcare infrastructure that allows data collection from different devices (i.e., patient monitors, bilirubinometers, and transcutaneous bilirubinometers), storage, processing and transferring will be presented. Communication protocols were designed to enable the communication and data transfer between the three different devices and a unique database and an easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) was implemented. The infrastructure is currently used in the “Women’s and Children’s Hospital G.Salesi” in Ancona (Italy), supporting clinicians and health opertators in their daily activities.

scholarly journals Staphylococcus capitis isolated from bloodstream infections: a nationwide 3-month survey in 38 neonatal intensive care units

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 2185-2194
Author(s):  
Marie Decalonne ◽  
Sandra Dos Santos ◽  
Rémi Gimenes ◽  
Florent Goube ◽  
Géraldine Abadie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Late Onset ◽  
Bloodstream Infections ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Staphylococcus Capitis ◽  
Clone Evolution ◽  
Preterm Babies ◽  
Median Birth Weight

Abstract To increase the knowledge about S. capitis in the neonatal setting, we conducted a nationwide 3-month survey in 38 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) covering 56.6% of French NICU beds. We demonstrated 14.2% of S. capitis BSI (S.capBSI) among nosocomial BSIs. S.capBSI incidence rate was 0.59 per 1000 patient-days. A total of 55.0% of the S.capBSIs were late onset catheter-related BSIs. The S. capitis strains infected preterm babies (median gestational age 26 weeks, median birth weight 855 g). They were resistant to methicillin and aminoglycosides and belonged to the NRCS-A clone. Evolution was favorable in all but one case, following vancomycin treatment.

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