Thirty Weeks Premature Infant Model

Outline
Lifelike premature infant model.

Skills Gained
• Premature baby nursing skills like bathing, suction, nasal feeding etc.
• Familiar with premature baby anatomy

Features

• Physiological features of preterm infant

• Baby weight Less than 2500g, height less than 47cm, soft skin with bright red, thin epidermis and visible blood vessels, loose and wrinkling facial skin, flabby cervical muscle, hypotonia of limbs, heavy lanugo, soft ear conch, unclear areola mammae, little dermatoglyphic patterns of sole, retained testicle of male infant, and labium majus can not cover labium minus for female

• Observable jaundice

• Bregmatic palpation for preterm infant, broad seam of bones of cranium, large fontanel and soft fringe of fontanel

• Cleaning and bathing exercise of preterm infant in the incubator

• Sputum suction and nasal feeding practice