Peritonitis in the Neonatal Period

Peritonitis in the neonatal period.

It has generally been assumed that peritonitis occurs but rarely in newborn infants. In the 1952 Charles West lecture (Moncrieff, 1953) on infection in newborn babies the condition was not mentioned. Thelander, who wrote a classical paper on perforations of the gastro-intestinal tract in newborn infants in 1939, stated that most paediatricians never saw a case, and in 1949 Low, Cooper and Cosby...

Neonatal primary peritonitis in Nigeria.

Duggan, M. B., and Khwaja, M. S. (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 130. Neonatal primary peritonitis in Nigeria. Six cases of neonatal primary peritonitis admitted to Ahmadu Bello Hospital, Zaria, between January 1972 and July 1973 are reported, of whom 4 survived. All patients had evidence of umbilical sepsis, while 2 had erythema marginatum, which has not previously been reported ...

[Nutrition in the neonatal period].

My approach to my subject must seem a doubly provincial one to this audience. First, I necessarily look at nutritional science as a paediatrician interested in newborn infants and am incapable of inspecting neonatal life with the eyes of a nutritionist. A more serious handicap must be the limitation of my experience to that minor part of the world with a problem of food surplus rather than scar...

Initiation of the Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist Mode in the Neonatal Period in Iran

Abstract: The new neonatal ventilation methods have been developed along with utilization of new technological tools.This device is synchronized with the patient’s respiratory efforts. The ideal synchronized breath needs to be synchronous with initiation, size, and termination of the breath without delay in detecting of initial resiratory effort by device .The synchrony of respiration contribut...

Desaturation During Cry in the Neonatal Period