Medication for premature children. Zaporizhia

Premature birth remains one of the most common causes of infant death, but thanks to advances in modern medicine, chances of survival are growing. Now the probability that a child born in the 28th week of pregnancy will survive is 90%. On the other hand, there is a significant risk of complications of respiratory, nervous and cardiac systems. Here, need special care and modern medical methods of salvation.

One of the serious problems in premature infants – the establishment of respiratory function. It is the underdevelopment of the Central nervous system affects the function of the respiratory system. There are typical features of respiration premature infants: superficial pauses of various duration, the prevalence of the phase of exhalation on breath, periodic breathing such as Cheyne-Stokes, Kussmaul, and Biota. The number of respiratory movements is 40-90 per minute. During crying, feeding, in the state of anxiety may experience respiratory failure, sometimes progressing to a secondary attack of asphyxia.

Lungs of a premature baby less air, they have a less elastic tissue. The lack anti-selection factor (surfactant) leads to the development of atelectasis, hyaline membranes, hemodynamic disturbances in premature infants, clinically evident respiratory distress syndrome.

For normal work of the lungs of a premature baby in the first hours of life doctors use the drug is Caffeine citrate. It stimulates the centers of breathing of a premature baby increases minute volume ventilation reduces the threshold carbon dioxide content in the blood, increases the rate of metabolism and increases the oxygen consumption of the baby. And without this preparation, a child can not begin to breathe in general.

The aim of our charity project to purchase the medicine Caffeine citrate the Department of an anesthesiology with beds of an intensive care of newborns and unit of pathology of prematurely born children of the Zaporizhia regional children's hospital

Even 1 UAH is a huge help and chance of salvage of the kid!