Improving neonatal survival

Neonatal Survival 4 Neonatal survival: a call for action

www.thelancet.com March, 2005 43 Many policymakers and health professionals are unaware that more than 10 000 newborn babies die every day, mostly from preventable causes. The Millennium Development Goal for child survival (MDG-4)—to reduce childhood mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015—will not be met without substantial reductions in neonatal mortality. Low-cost interventions could r...

Improving Neonatal Care with Technology

The care for preterm infants has improved considerably in the last decades and although the outcome improved, prematurity is still a large global health issue and is ranked in the top 10 of the WHO list of leading causes of burden of disease (1). Prematurity still leads to organ injury, especially of the lungs and brain, and is responsible for 50% of perinatal mortality (2). Historically, much ...

Improving survival of vulnerable infants increases neonatal intensive care unit nosocomial infection rate.

OBJECTIVE To determine the factors associated with an increasing rate of nosocomial infections in infants with very low birth weights. METHODS Retrospective review of clinical and nosocomial infection databases for all infants with birth weights of 1500 g or less admitted to an academic neonatal intensive care unit between January 1, 1991, and December 31, 1997 (N = 1184). Two study periods w...

Method for Improving the Metabolic Stability and Survival of Neonatal Pigs

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