OBJECTIVE To evaluate if the Apgar score remains pertinent in contemporary practice after more than 50 years of wide use, and to assess the value of the Apgar score in predicting infant survival, expanding from the neonatal to the post-neonatal period. METHODS The U.S. linked live birth and infant death dataset was used, which included 25,168,052 singleton births and 768,305 twin births. The ...

  Background :Reduction of neonatal mortality rate can improve health and newborn status of the society. This study was done to evaluate the prevalence and patternof causes for neonatal mortality in Gorgan, North of Iran.   Methods: this descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out on all birth in the maternity Dezyani hospital in Gorgan, North of Iran during 1 September 2008 -31 March 20...

A detailed clinicopathological analysis of 223 consecutive fetal and neonatal deaths was carried out in Curaçao during 1984 and 1985; this included careful histological examination of 210 infants (94%). The crude death rate was 34.2 per 1000 total births. Malformation was the principal cause of death in 28 cases, antepartum haemorrhage in 19, hypertension in 25, and asphyxia in 35. Death was ca...

Objectives: To investigate the relation between the timing of birth and the occurrence of death related to an intrapartum event. Design: Analysis of 107 206 births to Welsh residents in 1993-5, including 608 cases of stillbirth and 407 of neonatal death identified in the all Wales perinatal survey, the cause of death classified with the clinicopathological system. Subjects: 79 normally formed b...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The NR2B subunit of the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor is phosphorylated by the Src family kinase Fyn in brain, with tyrosine (Y) 1472 as the major phosphorylation site. Although Y1472 phosphorylation is important for synaptic plasticity, it is unknown whether it is involved in NMDA receptor-mediated excitotoxicity in neonatal brain hypoxia-ischemia (HI). This study...

Bangladesh has a neonatal death rate that is substantially high and demands urgent attention. To assess the causes of neonatal mortality, 1,019 pregnant women were followed up in eight randomly-selected rural areas of the country. Trained female interviewers visited the households of the subjects at four-week intervals to record neonatal deaths (within 28 days after birth). For each death, they...

AIMS This study examines predictors of neonatal and postneonatal mortality among infants born to black, white, and Hispanic women. METHODS Linked birth/infant death records from North Carolina for the period 1999-2007 were the source of data. Logistic regression models were constructed to estimate the effect of maternal and infant characteristics on neonatal (<28 days) and postneonatal (28-36...

The study was conducted to determine the combined effect of birthweight and gestational age at birth on neonatal mortality using individually-identified livebirths. Logistic regression was used for studying the interactive effect of birthweight and gestational age on the individual probability of neonatal death. All livebirths from Chile in 2000 were included in a linked file. Odds ratio models...

In the neonatal period, babies’ health is vulnerable. that baby may have possibility to experience pain. For this reason, a visit needed monitor baby’s health. Neonatal visits are one of prevention methods reduce IMR (Infant Mortality) by making direct contact with workers at least three times. This study aims describe mortality rate based on coverage visits, both 1 and 3. survey research utili...

OBJECTIVE To develop a mortality prediction score for retrieved neonates based on the information given at the first telephone contact with a retrieval service. METHODS Data from the New South Wales Newborn and Pediatric Emergency Transport Service database were examined. Analysis was performed with the results for 2504 infants (median gestational age: 36 weeks; range: 24-43 weeks) who were <...