PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Low Birth Weight, Apgar Score

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: Bourne

Document Summary

Apgar scale: a widely used method to assess the health of newborns at 1 and 5 minutes after birth; the apgar scale evaluates an infant"s heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, body colour, and reflex irritability. Neonatal intensive care unit network neurobehavioral scale (nnns): provides an assessment of the at-risk newborn"s behaviour, neurological and stress responses, and regulatory capacities. Low birth weight infant: infant that weighs < 2. 5 kg at birth. Very low birth weight infant: infant that weighs < 1. 5 kg at birth. Extremely low birth weight infant: infant that ways < 1. 0 kg at birth. Incidence of low birth weight is higher when; Births occur to women 35+ years of age or mother gives multiple births. Preterm infant: an infant born 3 weeks or more before completion of the 37 weeks of gestation (full pregnancy term, from fertilization to birth)