SETTING A Médecins Sans Frontières emergency obstetric and neonatal care facility specialising as a referral centre for three districts for women with complications during pregnancy or delivery in rural Burundi. OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics and in-facility mortality rates of neonates born in 2011. DESIGN Descriptive study involving a retrospective review of routinely collected ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Several prestigious agencies routinely rank countries based on crude perinatal and infant mortality rates, while more recently, international neonatal networks have begun comparing neonatal mortality and morbidity rates among very preterm and very low-birth-weight infants. We discuss the methodologic challenges that compromise such comparisons and potential remedies. RECENT ...

The success of transpyloric feeding in a group of babies weighing 1500 g or less was evaluated. This method was successful for most well babies but for many of those who required respiratory assistance (usually by face mask) it was not.

PURPOSE To analyze spatio-temporal variations of neonatal length of in-hospital stay in Canada. METHOD The length of in-hospital stay of 1,469,761 newborns in Canadian hospitals from April 1, 1984 to March 31, 1995 recorded by the Canadian Institute for Health Information was analyzed. RESULTS Neonatal length of in-hospital stay decreased from an average of 5.0 days in 1984 to 2.9 days in 1...

In Sudan, several studies have been conducted on low birth weight, a few concentrated on pre-term births per se. The objectives of this study were to describe maternal and obstetric factors predisposing to pre-term delivery, to determine the incidence of early neonatal complications, to identify causes of early neonatal deaths and to determine survival rates relative to gestational age and birt...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the effect of maternal cigarette smoking on birth weight, crown-heel length, and ten other neonatal anthropometric measurements. METHODS Data are from a cohort study on risk factors for fetal growth retardation (FGR) in multiparous women conducted from December 1985 through October 1988. Information on smoking status was collected four times during pregnancy. Data analys...

OBJECTIVES Tocompare maternal and neonatal complications in twin and triplet gestations at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Methods: Retrospective medical records of 165 women with 144 twin and 21 triplet pregnancies from 2004 to 2011 were analyzed. Comparisons were carried out for maternal complications, gestational age at birth, neonatal birth weight, and neonatal int...

BACKGROUND Infants born at 34(+0) to 36(+6) weeks gestation are defined as 'late preterm' infants. It is not clear whether these babies can be managed on the postnatal ward (PNW) or routinely need to be admitted to the neonatal unit after birth. AIM To conduct a national survey of admission practice for late preterm and low birth weight infants directly to the PNW after birth in England. ME...

Case series data suggest that high birth weight and neonatal macrosomia in offspring are associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer in parents. We therefore conducted a prospective analysis investigating the association among self-reported birth weight, neonatal macrosomia, and incident colorectal cancer in a population-based study of men and women. Participants were drawn from a co...

CONTEXT Intrauterine growth curves are extremely useful for classifying newborn children and predicting neonatal diseases. However, such curves rely on knowledge of the gestational age, which is not always easily obtained. Therefore, the study of other anthropometric measurements and their interrelationship is always desirable, in order to attain such objectives. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether...