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Home Monitoring
Program Helps , .
Prevent Infant Deaths
'R M .Recogiriized By iDDacEc Legislators
CHAPEL HILL '
People helping people is
a good way to describe a
new Infant Monitoring
Program at North
Carolina Memorial
Hospital which already is
helping to save the lives
of children around the
Tar Hed state.
N.C. Memorial doc
tors, nurses, social
workers, volunteers, and
other community groups
all have been working
together to help ensure
the program's success
over the past year.
"Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome (SIDS) or crib
death occurs when an ap
parently normal infant
dies suddenly and unex
pectedly usually during
sleep," said Dr. Marian
na Henry, pediatric
pulmonary fellow at
N.C. Memorial. "There
is no known cause for
the disorder which is
responsible for one-third
of the deaths of children
between the age of one
week and one year."
The peak age tor the
syndrome is between two
and four months. By the
age of six months, the in
cidence of death is con
siderably reduced.
Around 2,000 children in
the United States die
from the disorder each
year.
"Some infants are felt
to be a greater risk for
crib death than others,"
Henry said. "Infants
which quit breathing
often become limp and
blue and require
vigorous stimulation by
i heir parents."
Following a period of
evaluation in the
hospital, most of these
infants are considered
candidates for a home
monitoring program. In
fants who are brothers or
sisters of a SIDS victim
also may be at a slightly
increased risk and may
be candidates for a home
monitoring program.
Since the families who
use the monitors needed
to know how to operate
the device, there was a
feeling ; among hospital
staff that some type of
education program was
needed, said Polly
Johnson, pediatric nurse
clinician.
"What the home
monitoring ; program
does is to teach the
parents how to operate
the equipment! Since the
monitors ' J; tnggef ; an
alarm when the infant's
heart or respiratory rate
falls below a normal
level, we teach, them
what to do if the alarm
should go off,". Johnson
said.; " .
Each health care pro-
iessionai nas a , ruic w
play in the home;
monitoring program.
For example, nurses
teach the parents how to
work the equipment and
how to resuscitate the in
fant. Social workers help
families iearn to cope
with the stress of having
a baby on a monitor.
Approximately 12 to (
15 babies currently are
' participating in the
' monitoring program
which is headed by Dr.
Gerald Strope, assistant
professor of pediatrics at
the University of North "
Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Medicine.
: N.C. Memorial has
seven monitors which '
were donated by various
individuals, groups, and
organizations. Each
monitor costs approx
imately $1,600. Monitors
can be rented from com-
" mercial monitoring pro
grams for $25O-$3O0 per
month., .
. 'Monitor rental 'often
'is not covered by in
surance companies or
Medicaid," Henry said.
"Access to a monitor is,
then, particularly dif- (
ficult for the family
, without comprehensive
medical insurance."..,
This further com
: plicates the situation, but
often groups such as the
N.C. ,r rr Memorial
, Volunteers Association
have come through with
the money when a chilt?
desperately needed, i
monitor. .
; . "The first time t .
really needed a monitf '
the hospital t voluntei
contributed the ad -tional
$800 we needed .
buy a monitor. Th
; they h " fully " funded
another one for $1,600!
Johnson said. "It has
been very gratifying to
work with the volunteers
and other groups who
have been willing to raise
money for this important
program."
blacks, NBCSL has
among its members 350
state legislators from 44
states.
In - presenting the
R.J.' Reynolds Tobacco award to k.j. Keynoias
Co, with an award "for at its annual conierence,
helping the organization Maryland siaie ienaior
HILTON HEAD
ISLAND, S.C. The
National Black Caucus
of State Legislators
(NBCSL) has recognized
realize a significant in
crease in corporate sup
port in 1982." :
A national organiza
tion that . promotes
Clarence Mitchell, who ,
is president of NBCSL, ;
praised the, company for
"its efforts in helpings
form NBCSL's Cor-
nolitical eauality for' porate Roundtable in
1982. w ,
"R.J. . Reynolds
. leadership has been ; a
most valuable source of
support," Mitchell said.
"We've realized a;
significant increase in
, corporate support for
our organization and its
goals in 1982 as a result
-of R.J. Reynolds' ef
forts." ' "
. Earlier in the day,
Marshall B. Bass, vice
' president of R.J.
Reynolds Industries;
i Inc., the parent company
of R.J. Reynolds Tobac
co Co., spoke at the s
NBCSL 5 annual . con
ference about the need,
for r major U.S.
: businesses to play a
larger role in bringing
minorities v and women
further. ,. into the
mainstream of American
business.
i Bass said the results of
a "New company pro
gram designed to open
doors to business rela
tionships '..?' between
minority, suppliers and
R.J. Reynolds Industries
have been- most'
favorable. . w.f,:.-,
"On Nov. 16, in
Winston-Salem, we held
the first of a series of
one-day seminars , to
familiari minority and
women suppliers ; win
our company, the typa .'
of, goods and services w
need to reassure them of
our commitment. More
than 130 vendors from,
the Southeast and places ;
as far away as Chicago
and New York attended
our first seminar,' Bass
said; "I am pleased to
tell you that the over
whelming response has ..
been etremely positive."
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