Activities in Basic Training

General Paediatrics

Neonatology

Knowledge

• normal embryology and fetal physiology
• physiology of extra-uterine adaptation
• effects of prematurity and low birth weight
• neonatal infections
• major neonatal diseases
• neonatal malformations
• neonatal nutrition.
  

Skills

• history and physical examination
• neonatal resuscitation
• endotracheal intubation of the neonate
• management of neonatal ventilation
• blood sampling and arterial and venous catheterisation
• pleural chest drainage
• exchange transfusion
• phototherapy.

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