Birth weight of a child is an important indicator of its vulnerability for childhood illness and chances of survival. A large number of infant deaths can be averted by appropriate management of low birth weight babies and prevention of factors associated with low birth weight. The prevalence of low birth weight babies in Nepal is estimated to be about 12-32%.Our study aimed at identifying major...

Introduction: Evaluation of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) white blood cell (WBC) count and glucose and protein concentrations is used to assess the probability of the presence of central nervous system (CNS) infection. Although normal values are well established for CSF cell counts and protein and glucose contents in children and adults, this is not the case for neonates. The purpose of this st...

World Health Organisation (WHO) defines premature infants as those babies born before the completed 37th week of pregnancy (Turner-Maffei et al., 2014). Malaysian National Neonatal Registry (MNNR), reported an increase in rate births. This is also trend seen worldwide. Premature babies, they prior to period maturity, are physically and physiologically still immature; their brain immature, eyes,...

Abstract Objective: The objective of the study was to identify in scientific papers variables associated with parental stress premature babies’ parents through graph analytics technique. Methods: This is a Systematic Literature Review performed CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Medline, PsycInfo and Web Science databases. Results: search yielded 12 articles that were submitted data technique for analys...

AIM To investigate the feasibility of developing an objective tool for predicting death and severe disability using routinely available data, including an objective measure of illness severity, in very low birthweight babies. METHOD A cohort study of 297 premature babies surviving the first three days of life was made. Predictive variables considered included birthweight, gestation, 3 day cra...

1. The efficacy of oral vitamin E supplementation in preventing the early anaemia of the premature infant was assessed in a 10-week double-blind trial. Forty-two babies received either a placebo or 5 or 15 mg supplementary vitamin E/d with oral feeding. No infant received less than the recommended vitamin E:polyunsaturated fatty acid (E:PUFA) value of 0.6. No iron supplement was given. 2. Weekl...