abstract hypotonia is a serious neurologic problem in neonatal period. although hypotonia is a nonspecific clinical finding but it is the most common motor disorder in the newborn. the objective of this study was to determine the frequency of neonatal hypotonia then to ascertain of the most common causes methods this cross –sectional prospective study was carried out on the 3281 term infants ho...

objective: to compare maternal complications and labor outcome in obese and non-obese women. materials and methods: it is a retrospective comparative study conducted at the department of obstetrics and gynecology, unit 1, civil hospital, karachi from december 2008 to december 2009. a sample size of 220 gravid women is selected by non probability convenience sampling technique. in these 110 obes...

objective: preterm infants are prone to intraventricular hemorrhage. they may suffer from significant morbidity and mortality particularly in those with high-grade hemorrhage. our objective was to determine the incidence of intraventricular hemorrhage in premature infants transported to a tertiary center compared with those delivered at the level iii facility.  methods: we evaluated all prematu...

background: hyperbilirubinemia is considered one of the most prevalent problems in newborns. phototherapy, exchange transfusion, and herbal medicine are common therapeutic approaches for preventing any neurologic damage in infants with neonatal jaundice. however, herbal medicine is less commonly used. aim: this study aimed to investigate the effect of bilineaster drop on neonatal hyperbilirubin...

background: neonates affected by hereditary spherocytosis may suffer from significant jaundice. this study was conducted on neonates with jaundice hospitalized at the children’s hospital in bandar abbas, south iran, to determine the frequency of hereditary spherocytosis among them. patients and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 814 neonates with jaundice hospitalized at the children’s hos...

objective: to evaluate the effect of meperidine, commonly administered for labor analgesia, on newborn weight and peripartum breastfeeding during two months after delivery. materials and methods: this pilot cohort study was conducted between october 2010 and october 2011 at the women hospital of the tehran university of medical sciences. in this study, we examined the effects of meperidine on b...

O Trabalho tem como principal objetivo: Identificar o enfermeiro pode contribuir para a interação com equipe de enfermagem junto família na UTI-NEONATAL. estudo surgiu partir da observação acadêmica do grupo Unidade Terapia Intensiva Neonatal, onde realizamos visitas técnicas. Observamos exercer função dos enfermeiros neonatologistas deste serviço. Nossa motivação foi descrever processo comunic...

introduction: neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is one of the most important factors affecting the auditory system and can cause sensorineural hearing loss. this study investigated the relationship between behavioral hearing thresholds in children with a history of jaundice and the maximum level of bilirubin concentration in the blood.   materials and methods: this study was performed on 18 children ...

background: low birth weight (lbw) is one of the major determinants of neonatal survival as well as postnatal morbidity. objective: the main objective of the present study was to determine neonatal mortality rate (nmr) in lbw infants in yazd, iran. materials and methods: in a prospective-cohort study, all births in the maternity hospitals of yazd, iran in 2004 were evaluated and mortality rate ...