Resuscitation and life-support treatments for infants born at the "cusp of viability" continue to be subject to clinical and ethical debate. Reported positive outcomes for these infants led our Neonatal Program to critically review our historic practice of discouraging resuscitation of infants born at <24 weeks' gestational age. This practice change required a multifaceted, collaborative approa...

BACKGROUND Each year an estimated 10 million newborns require assistance to initiate breathing, and about 900 000 die due to intrapartum-related complications. Further research is required in several areas concerning neonatal resuscitation, particularly in settings with limited resources where the highest proportion of intrapartum-related deaths occur. The aim of this study is to use CCD-camera...

BACKGROUND Mothers delivering as private patients in Australia have a high rate of assisted deliveries, which could lead to adverse infant outcomes in this group of patients. We investigated whether the risk of adverse infant outcomes after assisted deliveries was different for mothers admitted as public or private patients for delivery, when compared with unassisted deliveries. METHODS AND F...

among 2357 prenant women at tehran valiasr hospital, 99 women under 18 years with their 102 neonates were evaluated retrospectively during aprill 1999 to april 2000. frequency of adolescent pregnancy was detected in 41.5 per 1000 live birth 7 (7.1%) of mothers had preeclampisa, 7 thyroidal diseases, 3 valvular heart diseases, 2 urinary tract infections and 20.3% of women had prolonged rupture o...

introduction: hospitals are the best ground for providing health promotion and prevention services besides health care services. this study aimed to determine the impact of establishing standards of health promoting hospitals on hospitals&apos; indicators in one of the public hospitals of iran. materials and methods: this research was a case-control study that included fatemieh (case group) and...

Department of Pediatrics, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Department of Pediatrics, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Department of Pediatrics, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Department of Pediatrics, Kangwon National University College of Med...

The effectiveness of five neonatal/paediatric manual resuscitators was assessed in a group of babies born by caesarean section. Results showed that devices incorporating a large volume reservoir produced the greatest tidal volume, while those with smaller volume reservoirs could not be considered satisfactory for routine use during neonatal resuscitation.

OBJECTIVE To use propensity score methods to create similar groups of women delivering in public and private hospitals and determine any differences in mode of delivery and neonatal outcomes between the matched groups. DESIGN Population-based, retrospective cohort study. SETTING Public and private hospitals in Western Australia. PARTICIPANTS Included were 93 802 public and 66 479 private ...