Family integrated care of preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units / 中华实用儿科临床杂志

ABSTRACT

Medical improvement increases successful rescue rate of premature infants.Under the bio-medico-humain management concept, in addition to the enhancement of medical devices and improvement of medical skills, professionals started to pay attention to a more scientific and better humanity caring model in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Family integrated care (FICare/FIC) is a synthesized management model of NICU, in which, parents of preterm infants are integrated into the NICU team by allowing parents to enter the NICU, nursing and caring of their own hospitalized infants under the supervision of well trained education nurses.Now, the background of FICare, the implementation method of FICare, the influence of FICare to breastfeeding and prognosis of preterm infants and the influence of FICare to the medical burden will be introduced.