Graph showing the heart's electrical activity.
Graph showing the brain's electrical activity.
This machine gives the blood oxygen from outside the body. It is used when treatment with a ventilator has not worked on babies with heart and lung problems.
Essential substances in the body that, when dissolved,?produce solutions able to conduct electric current (for example table salt, sodium chloride or potassium chloride).
Soft plastic tube inserted through the mouth or nose to the windpipe (trachea), which in turn is attached to a ventilator to help breathing. It is sometimes referred to as a 'tracheal tube' by anaesthetists.
Replacing the baby's blood with blood from an adult donor.
Expressing breast milk means to use a pump, hands or both to obtain milk from the mum's breasts. The milk can be stored in a freezer or given directly to the baby.
A baby born weighing less than 1000g.
Removing the endotracheal tube (see above) from the windpipe.
