Every year in the United States approximately 40,000 infants are born with congenital heart disease. Several of these infants require corrective or palliative surgery in the neonatal period. Mortality rates after cardiac surgery are highest amongst neonates, particularly those born prematurely. There are several reasons for the increased surgical mortality risk in neonates. This review outlines...

Colostrum (or first milk) is the food produced by all mothers in specific mammalian species, ruminants, monogastric and marine mammalians for their newborns during 24–48 h post-partum. provides to neonate essential nutrients necessary week of life, but effect colostrum shows a long-term not limited these days. considered be safe human consumption. Some young children can show at beginning colos...

BACKGROUND Ethiopia is among the countries with the highest neonatal mortality with the rate of 37 deaths per 1000 live births. In spite of many efforts by the government and other partners, non-significant decline has been achieved in the last 15 years. Thus, identifying the determinants and causes are very crucial for policy and program improvement. However, studies are scarce in the country ...

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Alia Military Hospital, Amman, Jordan. Received: 09/10/02; accepted: 26/02/03 ABSTRACT To compare labour and delivery outcomes in women undergoing induction and those having spontaneous onset for pregnancies past the estimated date of delivery, a prospective study of 395 singleton, uncomplicated pregnancies was performed. Labour was induced in 175...

Background: Meconium is a sterile, thick, black-green, odourless material that results from accumulation of debris in fetal intestine during the third month gestation. The risk factors for meconium-stained amniotic fluid (MSAF) are both maternal and fetal. MSAF associated with higher rate caesarean delivery, increased need neonatal resuscitation meconium aspiration syndrome. This observational ...

A 31-year-old nulliparous woman developed vaginal bleeding after spontaneous rupture of the membranes at 40 weeks of gestation. Fetal heart rate monitoring showed checkmark and sinusoidal patterns. A 3,281 g male neonate was delivered by emergency cesarean section, with Apgar scores of 1 and 3 at 1 and 5 min, respectively. The neonate exhibited severe acidosis with arterial blood gas pH of 6.96...

Abstract Survival and recruitment of offspring are important drivers population dynamics. Yet, studying wildlife shortly after parturition is logistically challenging oftentimes cost‐prohibitive. As a result, our ecological understanding neonate survival limited for many species management decisions often made without an adequate their implications. We developed model to estimate the overall ra...