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Neonatal abstinence syndrome: Diagnostic dilemmas in the maternity ward
Author(s) -
Tanja Lazić-Mitrović,
Željko Miković,
Vesna Mandić,
Lidija Hajnal-Avramovic,
Djurdjica Cecez,
Aleksandar Stanimirović,
Borisav Janković
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2406-0895
pISSN - 0370-8179
DOI - 10.2298/sarh1510573l
Subject(s) - medicine , pediatrics , crying , irritability , pregnancy , anamnesis , tachypnea , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , anesthesia , tachycardia , anxiety , genetics , biology
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) refers to a newborn neurological, gastrointestinal and/or respiratory disorder if a newborn was exposed to psychoactive substances in the intrauterine period. NAS is difficult to diagnose due to unreliability of the data on addictive substances use during pregnancy, limited possibilities of the prenatal exposure diagnosis and postnatal substance detection, which all lead to diagnostic dilemmas.

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