The Outcome of Premature Infants Admitted To theneonatal intensive care unit in pediatric central teaching hospital in Baghdad

Nadia Adel Khesro; Mahmood Abdulrazzaq Mahmood

Volume : VII, Issue : V, May - 2017

The Outcome of Premature Infants Admitted To theneonatal intensive care unit in pediatric central teaching hospital in Baghdad

Nadia Adel Khesro, Mahmood Abdulrazzaq Mahmood

Abstract :

Background; The World Health Organization(WHO) has defined prematureinfants as live born infants delivered before 37 weeks from the first day of last menstrual period. The high incidence of adverse prenatal outcomes may be contributed to the premature infants. Aim of this study; is to evaluate the outcome ofpremature infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. Methodology: A cross sectional study was carried on 262 premature infants< 1 week admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Pediatric Central Teaching Hospital in Baghdad and interviewed with mother by using detailed questionnaire. Result: This study showed that the highest proportion of neonates was male (56.5%), bottle feeding (61.8%), and born to mothers aged between 20–29 years. The highest death rates were found in infants with extremely low birth weight (43.8%) and below 30 weeks of gestation (37.3%). Conclusion;the death was most frequently due to respiratory distress syndrome, the difference in proportions of death was statistically significant for birth weight and for gestational age.