COMPARING MORBIDITIES IN EARLY TERM NEONATES AND FULL TERM NEONATES - A REVIEW

Rino Sriram; Soundararajan P; Venkatesh Karthik S

Volume : IX, Issue : V, May - 2020

COMPARING MORBIDITIES IN EARLY TERM NEONATES AND FULL TERM NEONATES - A REVIEW

Rino Sriram, Soundararajan P, Venkatesh Karthik S

Abstract :

Term neonate is defined as gestation weeks from 37 weeks to 42 weeks. Further classified as early term [37+0/7 to 38+6/7 weeks], full term [39+0/7 – 40+6/7 weeks] and late term [41+0/7 – 41+6/7 weeks]. More recent evidences, which were done retrospectively suggested that infants delivered between 37– and 39–weeks� gestation, are at increased risk for morbidity compared to infants delivered beyond 39 weeks of gestation. In recent years, prevalence and morbidities of early term neonates are in increasing trend. Aim of this review is to find out the better outcome and morbidity comparison among early term and full term neonates. Review of literature was done using key words neonatal morbidity, early term outcome, full term outcome in various journals published in past ten years and indexed in PubMed, Web of science, Scopus, Google scholars. We included systematic review, Descriptive– retrospective, prospective studies.