Premature baby statistics.

Premature baby statistics.

For 27 years annual figures have been kept of all infants weighing 2500 g or less born in the maternity department of the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield. The initial neonatal mortality rate (death within the first four weeks after birth) was then around 30% and is now 10%. This reduction is partly due to a decreased mortality rate among the individual weight groups but also to an increasi...

Kangaroo Care of Premature Baby

مقدمه: تولد یک نوزاد نارس تنش زیادی را برای والدین به همراه دارد. از جمله این موارد می توان نگرانی ازعوارض زایمان زودتر از موعد، احساس گناه مادر به دلیل احساس ناتوانی در به ثمر رساندن و تکمیل دوران بارداری، دور نمودن نوزاد از مادر بلافاصله پس از تولد برای مدت طولانی و مبهم بودن روند صحیح تکاملی را نام برد.

The Premature Baby

Life for the Premature Baby

to prematurity or its causes in obstetric or paediatric literature prior to this century, except in Paris where the first modern infant incubator was installed by Tarnier in 1880 at the Maternity Hospital. It was big enough to hold several children and designed from a chicken incubator by the Director of the Zoo. Prematurity is now one of the outstanding paediatric problems and it is an importa...

Congenital Antral Web in Premature Baby

Antral web is a rare cause of gastric outlet obstruction in neonate. It is a 2-4 mm thin mucous membrane that can be found anywhere from 1 to 7 cm proximal to the pylorus. The baby was born at gestational age of 32(+1) weeks with 1,880 g as 2nd baby of dizygotic twin. After birth, the baby had constant non-bilious vomiting without feeding while he didn't show abdominal distension or discolorati...