Also, women who have delivered stillbirths may not be shown the infant, and therefore could not adequately respond to questions about the infant's appearance.
The PSS NICU [ 42] is a validated 34-item scale that measures parents' stress during their infant's NICU hospitalization related to alterations in parental role, the infant's appearance and behaviour, and the NICU environment.
Mr. Stanton found the key to the robot's infant-sweet appearance at a baseball game.
Both mothers and fathers in general experienced high stress levels in relation to the infant's appearance.
The open-ended responses to the first survey provided us with user-generated, specific terms and phrases with which respondents could describe an infant's appearance at the four levels of BPD severity.
Dravet syndrome is characterized by onset of recurrent febrile and/or afebrile hemiclonic or generalized seizures, or status epilepticus, in a previously healthy infant, followed by appearance of multiple seizure types generally resistant to anti-epileptic drugs with developmental arrest or regression (Dravet et al., 2005; Jansen et al., 2006; Wolff et al., 2006).
By outward appearance, the infants seemed just as engaged and excited.
Clinical sepsis is defined as an infant with an unwell appearance, with alteration of the paediatric assessment triangle (appearance, respiratory and circulatory items).
The higher proportion of HPeV-infected children who required admission to NICU was probably determined by the low age in an infant with an unwell appearance rather than by the clinical severity, as there was only one patient with encephalitis who had sequelae.
Research has shown that the appearance of preterm infants is judged as less attractive than full term infants and their behaviour is observed as less alert, less attentive, less active and less responsive than that of full-term infants.
