Early attention in prematury. A case study.

Abstract

Background: within the scientific literature authors such as Martínez (2008) or Vericat and Orden in 2017 show a significant increase of prematurity at world level and the importance of early onset in neonatal intensive care units. That is why it is considered a health problem which proves necessary to keeping on research in order to get a better attention, quality and specialization of the services present in a baby s development and their family. Case description: our research presents a study of a prematurity case of Early Attention Service in Cáceres attendance is presented. The aim for this attendance is to carry out a kind of intervention which allows them to improve the different development areas under what is considered normal, considering the chronological age of the attendee. Objective: to describe the assessment, intervention and follow up process from the Early Attention Service. Procedure: during 45 bi-weekly sessions of 45 minutes each a study is carried out. Throughout these individual sessions, the different deficit aspects found through the Brunet- Lézine Scale are worked through. Results: after the intervention carried out by the stimulating subject improvements on the motor area is observed. Conclusions: results show the importance of a development of a program adapted to the user s individual needs, their family and their environment in order to equilibrate the maturity age with the chronological one in the least time possible.

Keywords

• prematuridad
• atención temprana
• prematuro
• pretérmino
• edad gestacional