title: Discharge planning and follow-up care: the asphyxiated infant.
abstract: Discharge planning and follow-up care of the asphyxiated infant is a complex process. Models of discharge planning, team member responsibilities, and teaching responsibilities are components of hospital discharge plans. Special care needs of these infants may include vision, hearing, immunizations, seizures, medications, and feeding. Families and health care professionals need to be familiar with programs providing financial resources for care of the infant such as private insurance, prepaid health care, Medicaid, Medical Needy program, Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN), federal legislation mandating education and services for high-risk infants (PL 99-142 and PL 99-457) and intervention programs. Families returning to Newborn Follow-up programs become acquainted with a variety of professionals and types of neonatal and infant assessments. Providing teaching materials and information regarding special health problems, services and outcome, as it becomes known, is the responsibility of the extended health care team of nurses, physicians, home health services, psychologists, and therapists.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Parker
mesh_terms: D000359:Aftercare / Q000379:methods*; D001238:Asphyxia Neonatorum / Q000150:complications / Q000451:nursing* / Q000628:therapy; D006701:Home Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015997:Neonatal Screening; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009737:Nursing Records; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D010351:Patient Discharge; D011379:Prognosis