BACKGROUND Globally, prematurity is the leading cause of death in children under the age of 5. Many efforts have focused on clinical approaches to improve the survival of premature babies. There is a need, however, to explore psychosocial, sociocultural, economic, and other factors as potential mechanisms to reduce the burden of prematurity. Women's empowerment may be a catalyst for moving the ...

conclusions the results of this study indicate that there is no meaningful difference between swaddling and kmc on physiological indexes and pain in neonates. therefore, the swaddling method may be a good substitute for kmc. results the findings revealed that pain was reduced to a great extent in the swaddling and kmc methods compared to the control group. however, there was no significant diff...

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...

In a previous report from this unit (Malan, Evans, and Heese, 1965) it was shown that in the first 72 hours of life there are several differences in acid-base status between premature and full-term infants. While term infants approached normal levels for adults, the pattern in premature babies was unstable, with a tendency towards acidosis. Metabolic (nonrespiratory) acidosis has been recorded ...

1Central Department of Maternal and Child Health, Ministry of Health, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Correspondence to H. Al Hosani: [email protected]). ABSTRACT The National Congenital Anomalies Register is a population-based register covering all births in the United Arab Emirates. We evaluated the progress of the register and determined the prevalence of congenital anomalies (CAs) and ...