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Gastrointestinal tract and salivary glands
Published in A Stewart Whitley, Jan Dodgeon, Angela Meadows, Jane Cullingworth, Ken Holmes, Marcus Jackson, Graham Hoadley, Randeep Kumar Kulshrestha, Clark’s Procedures in Diagnostic Imaging: A System-Based Approach, 2020
A Stewart Whitley, Jan Dodgeon, Angela Meadows, Jane Cullingworth, Ken Holmes, Marcus Jackson, Graham Hoadley, Randeep Kumar Kulshrestha
Advances in neonatal care in recent years have increased the survival of more preterm and term but poorly babies. Consequently, there has been a shift from respiratory to GI disorders as a key factor in mortality and morbidity. The small size of newborn babies allows evaluation of the entire depth of the abdomen by ultrasound. It is non-invasive and can be performed at the cot-side with no radiation exposure as compared to other means of abdominal imaging, in keeping with the goals of the Image Gently campaign [36]. Sonography also allows a functional assessment of the abdomen that is not possible with standard radiography [37].
He Tamariki Kokoti Tau: Whānau of preterm Māori infants (pēpi) reflect on their journeys from birth to first birthday
Published in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2022
Anna Adcock, Fiona Cram, Liza Edmonds, Beverley Lawton
Needing to engage with neonatal care following a preterm birth is a deviation from what whānau have anticipated as their hapū ora (pregnancy wellness) journey, with the fragmentation of their whānau collective because of distance or visiting rules leaving new parents ill at ease and vulnerable (Thompson 2009; Māori and Indigenous Analysis Ltd. & Rautaki Ltd 2010; Stevenson 2018; Stevenson et al. 2020; Adcock et al. 2021). Whānau talked about being exhausted from frequent medical scares. Getting to the first birthday of their pēpi was a milestone marked by the increased expertise of whānau to recognise and respond to health concerns. Whānau took everything they had learned on their journey and channelled that into being experts, demonstrating vigilance over the care of their pēpi, and collective resilience, while many suffered the exhaustion of frequent medical scares. Collectivity, coming together to support each other was an important way of coping with the journey.