Background: To study the clinical profile of neonates with respiratory distress.
 Methods: A prospective was conducted on 100 cases. Term, pre-term and post-term babies both in-borns out-borns cases were included in study.
 Results: The majority 85.00% presented increased rate, chest drawings. had flaring alae nasi.
 Conclusion: Increased rate along drawing, nasi are presentation...

BACKGROUND Discharging patients against medical advice is a problem of every age-group. However, because of their physiological vulnerability, the risk for the neonatal population is greater when discharged against medical advice (DAMA). This article is a study of the prevalence of the problem, the possible causes and/or risk factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective review of 10 years o...

INTRODUCTION Late preterm (LP) neonates (34 to 36 weeks gestation) are often managed like term neonates though current literature has identified them to have greater complications. The primary objective of our study was to evaluate and compare morbidity and resource utilisation in LPs especially in view of paucity of Asian studies in this regard. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective audit wa...

OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate the performance of a novel method for predicting neonatal respiratory morbidity based on quantitative analysis of the fetal lung by ultrasound. METHODS More than 13,000 non-clinical images and 900 fetal lung images were used to develop a computerized method based on texture analysis and machine learning algorithms, trained to predict neonatal respiratory morb...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the structure and processes of care of neonatal intensive care units (NICU) providing health care to neonates with respiratory insufficiency, and financed by Seguro Popular. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional design was used; 21 NICU were included. Information was collected from four sources: Seguro Popular database, self-applicable interviews to medical staff, stru...

Introduction: Resource limitation in developing countries may preclude access to cardiac troponin-T assay thereby necessitating reliance on clinical judgment for identification of hypoxic myocardial cellular injury. Objectives: To relate selected clinical signs with elevated serum cardiac troponin-T in asphyxiated term neonates. Methods: Asphyxia was identified by low umbilical arterial blood p...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate surfactant production and function in term neonates with transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN). STUDY DESIGN Samples of gastric aspirates collected within 30 minutes of birth from 42 term newborns with gestational age ≥ 37 weeks (21 patients with TTN and 21 control subjects), delivered via elective cesarean delivery, were analyzed with lamellar body count and stable m...