Infusional therapy to prematurely born children. Kyiv

The neonatal intensive care unit of the Kiev Regional Center for Maternal and Child Health at the regional maternity hospital specializes in helping premature babies and has an immediate need to update syringe pumps, which will significantly improve the quality and safety of the infusional support for these children at the nursing stage. Around 15 000 000 children in the world are born preterm annually. On average it is every tenth child.

Preterm born children are a special category- they are very week and fragile, their body functions are still immature. A baby born weighing less than 1500 grams, faces problems with respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive and nervous systems. Its life depends on correct and modern nursing. Prematurity is one of the main causes of child mortality in the world. Every year in Ukraine about 500 000 thousand babies are born. 24 000 thousand of them are born preterm. Approximately every 20th child in Ukraine is born premature. 

Born earlier than 32 weeks, these tinies not always can make their first breath on their own. They require the timely safe primary care. Lives of these babies fully depend on the modern medical equipment. Conducting proper infusion therapy for these children is only possible with the help of special devices – syringe pumps, providing liquid for intravenous feeding, with accurately calculated speed, it protects the brain from fluid overload. The pump is designed to deliver medication with high accuracy at both high and low infusion rates. The pump has an extensive control and alarm systems, as well as built-in battery. All this provides a continuous pump operation during patient transportation or power outage, as well as monitors the correct operation of the pump triggering an audible alarm, lighting up the cause.

The purpose of our project – to buy the modern spray pump which will help doctors Kiev Regional Center for Maternal and Child Health to carry out the correct infusional therapy to small prematurely born children.