investigating the effects of the neonatal factors and therapeutic modalities on neonatal mortality in neonatal intensive care unit of shahid motahhari haspital, urmia: case-control group study     mohadesi h [1] , khalkhali hr [2] *, fakor z [3] , azadi j [4]     received: 29 nov, 2012 accepted: 13 feb, 2013       abstract   background & aims : neonate is a vulnerable being and its death depend...

Background and objective: Neonatal sepsis is defined as presence of clinical signs accompanied by positive blood culture in newborns less than one month of age. Sepsis is a common cause of hospital admission in neonates, and it is known as one of the main causes of mortality among them, not only in developed countries but in developing ones. Delay in diagnosis and appropriate antibiotic therapy...

Background: Newborn mortality is one of the most neglected health problems in developing world, there are estimated 4 million neonatal deaths worldwide each year. Moreover, it to account for 40% under five and two-third infant deaths.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study included 120 primipara mothers newborn from 2 28Day life admitted postnatal ward Siliguri District hospital during yea...

INTRODUCTION Insects have been described as mechanical vectors of nosocomial infections. METHODS Non-biting flying insects were collected inside a pediatric ward and neonatal-intensive care unit (ICU) of a Brazilian tertiary hospital. RESULTS Most (86.4%) of them were found to carry one or more species of bacteria on their external surfaces. The bacteria isolated were Gram-positive bacilli ...

The emergence and spread of bacteria carrying the bla(NDM-1) gene has become a worldwide concern. Here, we report eight cases of Klebsiella pneumoniae with bla(NDM-1) in the neonatal ward of a teaching hospital in mainland China. Multilocus sequence typing showed that seven isolates were clonally related and confirmed them as sequence type 17 (ST17). One isolate belonged to ST433. These finding...

moreover, the federal government and some states, responding to the growing economic burdens created by the program, frequently aim their budget cutting knives at expenditures on women and children, who are without the political defenses needed to fight back. The United States offers children no floor of health care decency as it does for the elderly through the Medicare program. There is no bo...

Do transitory economic shocks affect neonatal outcomes? I show that an unexpected, monthlong blackout in Tanzania caused a sharp but temporary drop in work hours for workers in electricity-dependent jobs. Using records from a maternity ward, I document a reduction in birth weights for children exposed in utero to the blackout, and an increase in the probability of low birth weight. The reductio...

Early identification and management of hearing impairment is very valuable. The goal standard measurement of hearing loss is by brainstem evoked response (BSER). This prospective study was conducted in Hospital University Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM) to determine the sensitivity and specificity of transient evoked otoacoustic emission (TEOAE) as a screening tool for hearing impairment from Februa...

Methods This program was conducted in a 500-bed private hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. WHO tool was used to assess HH adherence before (Jun-Aug2008) and after the intervention (Jul-Sept2009). The inpatient units were: Medical Surgical Ward, Oncology, Neonatal and Pediatrics and outpatient were: Surgical Ambulatory, Obstetric Center, Emergency, Post Anesthesia, Diagnostic Medicine Department and...