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The Special Care Nursery, Linda Kahn-D’Angelo, Yvette Blanchard, Beth Mcmanus
The Special Care Nursery, Linda Kahn-D’Angelo, Yvette Blanchard, Beth Mcmanus
Physical Therapy Faculty Publications
Providing services to high-risk infants and their families in the neonatal intensive care unit is a complex subspecialty of pediatric physical therapy requiring knowledge and skills beyond the competencies for entry into practice. The newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are among the most fragile patients that physical therapists will treat, and detrimental effects can occur as the result of routine caregiving procedures. Pediatric physical therapists (PTs) need advanced education in areas such as early fetal and infant development; infant neurobehavior; family responses to having a sick newborn; the environment of the NICU, physiologic assessment and monitoring; newborn …