Reducing neonatal deaths

Audit for reducing perinatal deaths in Nepal.

Neonatal Deaths and Still Births in Bombay

Neonatal death is usually understood to mean the death of a child in the first month after birth, infant death being death within the first year. The neonatal death rate is the number of neonatal deaths per 1,000 live births. The still birth rate is the number of babies of over 7 months' pregnancy who are born dead per 1,000 total births. That the subject of neonatal death and still birth is an...

Group B streptococci in neonatal deaths.

Clinical microbiologists are reminded to look for group B streptococci in neonatal infants. We report four deaths, one with meningitis, occurring among 14 such infected newborn infants at our institution; of the nursing staff, 31% were also carriers of group B streptococci.

Neonatal deaths hamper India's infant mortality targets.

India will be unable to achieve any substantial further drop in its infant mortality without first intensifying efforts to protect babies during their first four weeks of life, neonatologists told a conference in New Delhi last week. An estimated 1.2 million babies die in India each year during the first month after birth, making up two thirds of the nation’s infant mortality of 67 per thousand...

Neonatal Deaths After Hepatitis B Vaccine

Results: Of 1771 neonatal reports, there were 18 deaths in 8 boys and 9 girls (1 patient unclassified). The mean age at vaccination for these 18 cases was 12 days (range, 1-27 days); median time from vaccination to onset of symptoms was 2 days (range, 0-20 days); and median time from symptoms to death was 0 days (range, 0-15 days). The mean birth weight of the neonates (n = 15) was 3034 g (rang...