#premature — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🍼🔬 In the early #1900s, an obstetrician ran a #ConeyIsland sideshow called the "child hatchery" where visitors paid to see premie #babies in glass #incubators – because no hospital in #NewYorkCity would care for them.

Over four decades, the doctor cared for about 8,000 #infants, and his sideshow proved incubators worked, eventually pushing hospitals to adopt the #technology that remains standard in NICUs today.

👉 https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a71564227/baby-incubator/

#newyork #nyc #premature #medicine #history #science #nicu #pediatrics #innovation #1900s #20thcentury

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🍼🔬 In the early #1900s, an obstetrician ran a #ConeyIsland sideshow called the "child hatchery" where visitors paid to see premie #babies in glass #incubators – because no hospital in #NewYorkCity would care for them.

Over four decades, the doctor cared for about 8,000 #infants, and his sideshow proved incubators worked, eventually pushing hospitals to adopt the #technology that remains standard in NICUs today.

👉 https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a71564227/baby-incubator/

#newyork #nyc #premature #medicine #history #science #nicu #pediatrics #innovation #1900s #20thcentury

At least 4,506* #Palestinian #children of #Gaza are dead by now.

*Following the collapse of services and communications at hospitals in the north, the number of children killed within the last 72h is unknown

»#Premature #babies at Gaza’s largest hospital are being wrapped in foil and placed next to hot water […] oxygen supplies ran out and they had to move the babies by hand from the neonatal unit’s #incubators to a different part of the hospital.«

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/13/middleeast/gaza-babies-incubators-al-shifa-hospital-israel-intl-hnk/index.html