Maternal Health, Neonatology, and Perinatology reviewer acknowledgement 2015
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چکیده
The editor of Maternal Health, Neonatology, and Perinatology would like to thank all of the reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 1 (2015).
منابع مشابه
Urogenital fistula reviewed: a marker of severe maternal morbidity and an indicator of the quality of maternal healthcare delivery.
BACKGROUND While obstetric fistula has been recognized as a major maternal morbidity since the 1980s, it has become an indicator of access to and quality of women' s health care. FINDINGS Obstetric fistula still exists in low-income countries (LIC) because health care systems fail to provide adequate family planning, skilled birth attendance, basic and emergency obstetric care, and affordable...
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BACKGROUND There are large differences in pregnancy outcome between high income countries and many middle and low income countries. In fact, maternal, fetal and neonatal mortality rates in many low-income countries approximate those that were seen in high-income countries nearly a century ago. FINDINGS This paper documents the very substantial reductions in maternal, fetal and neonatal mortal...
متن کاملSevere asymptomatic maternal antepartum hyponatremia leading to neonatal seizures: prevention is better than cure.
BACKGROUND Pre-delivery maternal electrolyte derangements may reflect themselves in the newborn, since placental homeostasis determines electrolyte equilibrium between mother and fetus. CASE PRESENTATION A term newborn, transferred to our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 1 h after birth for an apnoea episode, presented with initially left-sided, and subsequently generalized tonic-clonic seizures ...
متن کاملA cross-sectional study of determinants of birth weight of neonates in the Greater Accra region of Ghana.
BACKGROUND Birth weight is a major determinant of infant morbidity and mortality. Fetal undernourishment means an increased risk of dying during a baby's early months and years. Birth weight has emerged as the leading indicator of infant health and welfare and the central focus of infant health policy. The issues have not been comprehensively evaluated in part due to lack of or limited empirica...
متن کاملA physiologic approach to cord clamping: Clinical issues.
BACKGROUND Recent experimental physiology data and a large, population-based observational study have changed umbilical cord clamping from a strictly time-based construct to a more complex equilibrium involving circulatory changes and the onset of respirations in the newly born infant. However, available evidence is not yet sufficient to optimize the management of umbilical cord clamping. FIN...
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دوره 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016