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Neonatologist
Provides intensive care for critically ill or premature newborn babies.
Did you know?
In 2018 a baby nicknamed Saybie was born in San Diego weighing just 245 grams, about as much as a large apple, and she survived.
How subjects help
- Biology: Understand how a premature baby's lungs and other organs are still developing.
- Chemistry: Give tiny, precise medicine doses and fluids that suit a newborn's delicate body.
- Anatomy: Place very fine tubes and lines into a baby's tiny veins and airways.
- Psychology: Comfort anxious parents and help them bond with their baby in intensive care.
A famous name
Mildred T. Stahlman: Set up one of the first modern newborn intensive care units, at Vanderbilt in 1961.
Try it yourself: Take your pulse like a nurse
- Put two fingers (not your thumb) on the inside of your wrist, below your thumb, until you feel a beat.
- Count the beats for 15 seconds, then multiply by 4. That is your resting heart rate per minute.
- If you can, do 20 star jumps, then count again straight away.
- Check every minute until it is back to where it started. How long did it take?
Nurses, doctors and paramedics take a pulse all day: it is one of the quickest ways to tell how a body is coping.
Also try: Chase the germs away with soap.
Known for it in
USA, Japan, Sweden, Germany, Australia