University of Colorado Boulder - Preventative Healthcare for the Newborn Baby
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Preventative Healthcare for the Newborn Baby at Coursera Overview
Duration | 15 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Preventative Healthcare for the Newborn Baby at Coursera Highlights
- This Course Plus the Full Specialization.
- Shareable Certificates.
- Graded Programming Assignments.
Preventative Healthcare for the Newborn Baby at Coursera Course details
- In this course participants will learn some medical interventions and skills to keep newborns healthy in the days and weeks after they have been born
- This course tell you about medicines like Vitamin K and erythromycin and how they can prevent serious illnesses
- Introduce screening tests like hearing screening and newborn blood screening that help to make sure that babies are set up for success right from the star
- But we will start off by talking about jaundice, looking at the simple ways to identify and treat this common presentation and prevent any harm to babies
Preventative Healthcare for the Newborn Baby at Coursera Curriculum
Jaundice
Welcome to the Newborn Baby Care Specialization
Introduction: Preventative Care for the Newborn baby
Normal Bilirubin Metabolism
Causes of Jaundice
Identifying Jaundice and Kernicterus
Measuring Bilirubin Levels
Treating Hyperbilirubinemia to Prevent Kernicterus
Phototherapy Treatment
About Us: Your Instructors
American Academy of Pediatrics: Clinical Practice Guideline
Healthy Children
CDC Guidelines on Jaundice
CDC Facts about Jaundice and Kernicterus
Jaundice Quiz
Hearing and Screening
Why Is Newborn Screening Important?
Degrees and Implications of Hearing Loss
Newborn Hearing Screening and Types of Hearing Screening
What Happens Next After a Newborn Hearing Screening?
Treatments for Hearing Loss
No Access to Newborn Hearing Screening
AAP Joint Committee on Infant Hearing
World Health Organization: Childhood Hearing Loss: Act Now, Here?s How
NCHAM Resource Guide for EHDI
NCHAM Newborn Hearing Screening
Hearing Screening Quiz
Newborn screening
Introduction to Newborn Screening
Blood spot Screening
Hemoglobinopathies
Metabolic Diseases
Process and Wrap-up of Blood Spot Screening
APHL Newborn Screening
AAP Newborn Screening and Hemoglobinopathies
Newborn Screening Quiz
Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD)
Description of Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD)
Comparison of Fetal and Baby Blood Flow
Using Pulse Oximetry to Screen for CCHD
Critical congenital heart disease
Congenital Heart Disease Quiz
Vitamin K, Hepatitus B, and Erythromycin
Vitamin K
Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding (VKDB)
Hepatitis B
Erythromycin
Vitamin K in Neonates: Facts and Myths
CDC Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding
CDC Vitamin K Shot Given at Birth
AAP Recommendations on Hepatitis B
AAP Hepatitis B Dose Within 24 Hours of Birth
CDC Conjunctivitis in Newborns
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)s & Pregnancy
Vitamin K, VKDB, Hepatitis B, and Erythromycin
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