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Admitting Term Infants to Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Australia
Author(s) -
De Costa Caroline,
Howat Paul
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
birth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.233
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1523-536X
pISSN - 0730-7659
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-536x.2008.00250_3.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , neonatal intensive care unit , medicine , pediatrics , computer science
[Extract] Tracy et al reported an overall rate of admission to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) across Australia of babies born at term (37-41 weeks) to "low-risk mothers" in the period 1999 to 2002, of 8.9 percent for primiparas, and of 6.3 percent for multiparas (Birth 2007;34 (4):301-301). It would be alarming if this were, in fact, the case and that such a high percentage of babies required the ventilatory support and invasive diagnostic workup described in this study. Tracy et al's study also reported considerably increased risks of admission to NICU for babies born by elective cesarean section at 37 to 39 weeks in "lowrisk" women