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Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Neonatales: Morbimortalidad en Recién Nacidos Prematuros
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Silva, Laura León, María Guadalupe Martínez Rodríguez, Juan Martín |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | Objective: To analyze morbidity and mortality of premature newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Hospital Materno Infantil from 01/01/05 to 01/01/06. Methods: Retrospective, cross sectional cases review. By descriptive statistical methods we evaluated: gestational age, birth weight, admission diagnosis, ventilatory treatment, hospitalization length, complications, discharge diagnosis and death causes. Results: In the referred period 428 newborns were admitted, 96 (22,4 %) of them were premature (10,3/1 000 live newborns), their hospitalization length averaged 16 days and 79,1 % required ventilatory assistance. The average gestational age was 32,7 weeks and the average birth weight was 1 750 g. Most of them were admitted because of respiratory diffi culty syndrome (DRS) (51,0 %) and sepsis (26 %). Low birth weight was observed in 55,2 %, sepsis was shown in 26,0 %, and mortality was present in 23,9 %. Death was principally secondary to DRS (14,5 %) and to sepsis (11,4 %). Conclusions: DRS is the main cause of admission and death and Sepsis the second one. More than half preterm infants showed low weigh at birth . |
| Starting Page | 46 |
| Ending Page | 51 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.15174/au.2007.167 |
| Volume Number | 17 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.acuedi.org/ddata/1440.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.15174/au.2007.167 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
