Assessing congenital heart defects in the cocaine-exposed neonate.
An estimated 100,000 "crack babies" are born each year in the United States. Because in addition to a variety of other congenital anomalies, neonatal cardiac defects have recently been linked to maternal cocaine use, the critical care nurse needs to conduct a detailed cardiac status assessment on all cocaine-exposed infants.
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D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D016578:Crack Cocaine; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000451:nursing; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing; D009730:Nursing Assessment
D016578:Crack Cocaine