ABOUT SOME OF OUR PUBLICATIONS

The Government of Niger State of Nigeria has reported the success of their collaboration with us since 2016 as shown by TVC News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aC5Lnsfwcs 

The Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) interviews Professor Hippolite Amadi on the burden  of high neonatal mortality in Nigeria - 2015 

Highlights and speeches at the launch of BORN TO LIVE NOT TO DIE, 01 August 2020 

2015 REPORT on the reduction of NEONATAL MORTALITY in Nigeria by the committee of CMDs/MDs of tertiary hospitals

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The impact of initial-setpoint prediction tool for neonatal temperature control by Adesina et al 2016:

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CCEFTHI Nigeria

DR PETER ALABI completes his tenure as the Chairman of the Committee of Chief Executives of Federal Tertiary Health Institutions [CCEFTHI] of Nigeria. The compelling assessment of his commitment towards NEWBORN survival in Nigeria has been presented HEREhttp://neonatalconcerns.org/ccefthi.html

What is the ISA?

The Initial Setpoint Algorithm [ISA] is a newly developed technique used to control neonate's body temperature within the first hour of initiating neonatal nursing. University of Abuja Teaching Hospital UATH currently reports that the combination of ISA and the Handy-approach has led to the reduction of neonatal mortality rate (NNMR) of extremely low birthweight neonates from 484/1000 to less than 10/1000. More...http://neonatalconcerns.org/abuja-teaching-hospital.html

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What is the ‘Handy-Approach' ?

The care of extremely low birthweight (ELBW, <1000g) and extremely premature (<30 weeks gestation) neonates has been the most challenging and difficult aspect of special-care-baby-unit (scbu) practice in nigeria. these class newborns rarely survive, primarily due to extremely inadequate thermoneutral control widespread infection>

http://www.intechopen.com/books/current-topics-in-tropical-medicine/neonatal-thermoneutrality ).

The handy-approach is based on a flowchart that helps the clinician or nurse to navigate the neonate’s thermal circumstances, following defined guidelines to stabilize this within the physiologically allowable safe-zone.

Neonatal hyperthermia and thermal stress in low- and middle-income countries: a hidden cause of death in extremely low-birthweight neonates.

This is our latest journal publication in Paediatrics and international Child Health (PCH) has investigated the impact of the handy-approach and how this has assisted to drastically reduce the high mortality of ELBW neonates in a typical Nigerian SCBU applying it.

In the study, a referral hospital that could not previously provide any record of a single survival in a 24-months data coverage prior to the adoption of the Handy-approach (from April 2011 to March 2013), was later able to demonstrate better skills with the Handy-Approach as a total of six survivors emerged from only 6-months of data coverage (from January to August 2014).

The article can be downloaded free from:

http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1179/2046905515Y.0000000030

A NIGERIAN 550g, 28 weeks-GA NEONATE SUCCESSFULLY DISCHARGED –

FMC Owerri makes history with the Handy-approach flowchart

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