The Future of the Special Care Baby Unit 

28/03/2012 09:55  
28/03/2012 16:30  
Fairmount House, York  
 
One in every nine babies in the UK is born premature or sick. That means that over 80,000 babies every year find themselves spending time in a special care baby unit. Nowadays around 80% of babies born weighing less than 1.5kg survive, compared to around 40% in the 1960s.

Not only has careful nursing been integral to this improvement, but also new instruments and better monitoring. Significant advances in medical technologies often have to the further modified for the neonatal environment where the preterm baby is different from the full term baby.

This event will look at how technology has evolved for the special care baby unit and consider what a special care baby unit may look like in the future. It will bring together the multi disciplinary team that works within the neonatal field to discuss developments in areas ranging from instrumentation, to signal or imaging processing, to equipment management and training.


THIS CONFERENCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED. NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY