Should we look after babies less than 800 g?
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Should we look after babies less than 800 g?
It is a decade since Professors David Milner and Richard Beard produced data to show that 39% of babies born at 25 weeks' gestation and 16% of those born at 24 weeks' gestation were surviving in the major neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Britain.' Translated into birth weight, this and other contemporaneous data suggested that at least 20-30% of babies weighing 600-800 g were surviving ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.68.3_spec_no.326