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Improving Treatment for Drug-Exposed Infants
Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series 5
- Abruptio placentae
- Premature detachment of the placenta from the wall of the uterus.
- Alkalosis
- Abnormally increased pH from respiratory or metabolic causes.
- Antepartum
- before childbirth.
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Alterations of the heartbeat.
- Cavitation
- Formation of space in an organ or tissue.
- Causation
- Causal role.
- Cerebral infarctions
- Dead or diseased areas of the brain.
- Chlamydia
- A microorganism of the genus chlamydia.
- Decreased habituation
- Decreased responsiveness after a repeated exposure to a stimulus.
- Echocardiography
- Noninvasive diagnostic procedure for the heart involving high frequency sound waves.
- Echoencephalographic
- Use of ultrasound in measuring/examining the internal structures of the skull.
- Encephalopathic syndrome
- Condition of brain pathology.
- Feeding intolerance
- Inability to effectively suck, swallow or retain feedings.
- Genitourinary tract
- System of organs related to reproduction and the production and excretion of urine.
- Hemorrhagic ischemic lesions
- Caused by bleeding or reduced blood flow.
- Hypermetabolic
- Excessively increased metabolism.
- Hyperpnea
- Abnormally rapid or deep breathing.
- Hyperpyrexia
- Exceptionally high fever.
- Hyperreflexia
- Overactivity of physiological reflexes.
- Hyperthyroid state
- Overactive thyroid gland, causing a state of increased metabolism.
- Hypertonia
- Excessive tone or tension of a muscle.
- Hypoxia
- Too little oxygen reaching the body tissues.
- Hypoxemia
- Deficient oxygenation of the blood.
- Intrapartum
- During childbirth.
- Intraventricular hemorrhage
- Bleeding within a ventricle of the brain.
- Ischemia
- Localized tissue anemia or narrowing of arteries by spasm or disease.
- Ischemic injury
- Local injury caused by impaired blood flow.
- Labile state
- Frequently changing.
- Meconium aspiration
- Fetus breathing or sucking in a mass of meconium, which is usually discharged shortly after birth.
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- Inflammation of large and small intestines.
- Neurotoxicity
- Toxicity to the nerves or nervous tissue.
- Philtrum
- The vertical groove on the median line of the upper lip.
- Respiratory alkalosis
- Alkalosis caused by excessive elimination of carbon dioxide due to a respiratory abnormality, such as hyperventilation.
- Sepsis
- A toxic condition resulting from spread of bacteria or their products from an infection.
- Tachycardia
- Relatively rapid heart action.
- Tachypnea
- Increased rate of respiration.
- Thrombocytosis
- Abnormal increase in the number of blood platelets.
- Vascular
- Affecting tube(s) that convey a body fluid, such as blood.
- Vasoconstriction
- Narrowing of blood vessels.
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