Open AccessTO COMPARE THE MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY PATTERN OF LATE PRETERM AND TERM NEONATES.
Author(s) -
Gunwant Singh Eske,
Rashmi Ekka Dehariya
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of medical and biomedical studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-8698
pISSN - 2589-868X
DOI - 10.32553/ijmbs.v3i6.308
Subject(s) - medicine , respiratory distress , pediatrics , hypoglycemia , jaundice , gestational age , observational study , full term , prospective cohort study , pregnancy , surgery , biology , genetics , insulin
This is a hospital based prospective observational study, carried out at Gajara Raja Medical College, Gwalior. All the inborn late preterm babies have been included in the study. Selection of late preterm neonates is done by determination of gestational age.
In our study Neonatal convulsions were more common among the late preterm neonates as compare to term group.
In our study jaundice, septicemia, respiratory distress and hypoglycemia were found as major morbidities, among late preterm the rate was found to be 9%,7.8%,7.6% and 6% respectively while in term group the rate was 3.34%, 3.38%, 3.41% and 2.56% respectively. Occurrence of these morbidities among late preterm neonates as compared to term group is at higher aspect.
Keywords: Morbidity, Mortality, Preterm, Term & Neonates