What nursing care does a 24 week old fetus require?
OK-> the lungs of the premature infant are collapsed at the start since they have not yet used oxygen , they are also stiff, and do not produce enough surfactant thus cannot facilitate breathing. Usually corticosteroid medication are given to help prepare the fetus’s lungs prior to birth. Such treatment is the most effective and least risky intervention available for improving the infant’s chances of surviving a premature birth between 24 and 34 weeks of gestation. Because the lungs interact closely with the heart and the kidneys, problems in one organ system can cause problems in the other. What goes on in the heart of a neonate has an effect on respiration. (Normally, the neonate’s heart has shunts between pulmonary and systemic circulation, and when an infant is born at the normal time, or close to it, those shunts begin to close with the first breaths, and this closing process is completed at about 2 months of age. A 24-week neonate needs artificial respiration, and under artificia
