Globally, each year, an estimated 13 million infants are born before 37 completed weeks of gestation. Complications from these preterm births are the leading cause of neonatal mortality. Preterm birth is directly responsible for an estimated one million neonatal deaths annually and is also an important contributor to child and adult morbidities. Low- and middle-income countries are disproportio...

Bacteremic/20 wk PEN × 9 d Uncomplicated term delivery; neonate unaffected Zervoudakis and Cederqvist, 1977 Bacteremic/19 wk AMP × 3 wk Uncomplicated term delivery; neonate unaffected Hume, 1976 Bacteremic/18 wk AMP × 2 wk; then PO AMX Uncomplicated delivery at 39 wk; neonate unaffected Benshushan et al., 2002 Bacteremic/18 wk AMP × 7 d, GEN × 2 d; then PO AMX Diagnosed postpartum; preterm deli...

Dear Editors, We present a case of nasal injury secondary to nasal continuous positive airway pressure in a 28-week-preterm infant, hospitalised in the neonatal intensive care unit of our hospital. After having applied a nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) device at 4 weeks of birth, the infant showed a loss of cutaneous substance at the level of nasal columella with partial expos...

CPAP is the most studied form of noninvasive ventilation in neonates, and early investigations focused on the use of CPAP following surfactant administration, to minimize the need for invasive mechanical ventilation.1 Verder and colleagues demonstrated that a strategy of CPAP following brief intubation and surfactant administration (the INSURE technique: INtubation, SURfactant, Extubation) impr...

OBJECTIVE To explore the incidence of preterm delivery, maternal risk factors for having a preterm neonate, and preterm neonates' mortality in Jordan. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional population-based design was applied. Socio-demographic, perinatal, delivery risk factors, and survival information were gathered in pre- and post-hospital discharge interviews with 21075 women who gave bi...

Background: LBW is defined as weight at birth less than 2.5kg irrespective of gestational age. neonate remains much higher risk morbidity and mortality normal baby. Morbidity among babies are a major health problem in our country, so it’s important to identify factors. Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted on 153 extramural neonates admitted Neonatal intensive care unit civil...

Aldosterone is important in the regulation of sodium conservation by both kidney and colon. In the very preterm neonate marked urinary salt wasting occurs because of immature renal tubular function, but little is known of the ontogeny of colonic transport processes. Using an in vivo rectal dialysis technique, we have shown that in the human infant the colon has well developed salt conserving me...

Background: Neonatal acute respiratory distress is a common cause for mortality and morbidity in preterm neonates. Non-invasive ventilation crucial neonates, nasal intermittent positive pressure continuous airway pressure. Recently, heated humidified high-flow cannula modes have been revealed as more efficient non-invasive mode improving functional residual capacity however, other studies quest...