My day started with the MRI meeting. Unfortunately, it was held in Dutch and no one had time to translate it for me. What I did notice, however, was that our newborn with asphyxia seems to have suffered only slight damage, including to the corpora mamillaria. Afterwards, I watched a premature baby having his intravenous line changed. Because the veins are really tiny, it took them 5 tries before it worked. Just before lunch with the research students, I followed Veerle to the councelings for the current studies at LUMC. One of the biggest national studies is the Concord study. The Concord is a resuscitation table on wheels. Normally, premature babies or newborns from high-risk pregnancies are brought out of the delivery room immediately after birth and assessed and cared for in the adjacent room. Here the newborns can be given oxygen and resuscitated in an emergency. Thanks to the Concord table, the umbilical cord does not have to be cut immediately and the neonatologists can take care of the baby in the delivery room. This means that contact with the mother is maintained for longer and the risk of complications is reduced. You can find more information about this at www.concordneonatal.com, see also photo.
Later, I took part in the student teaching again. This time it was a seminar on preterm birth. Lastly, a research student introduced me to data analysis, so I can help him a bit with his study tomorrow and the day after.
The concord table.
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