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ANESTHETIC CONSIDERATIONS IN PREMATURE BIRTH
International Anesthesiology Clinics, 1990Premature birth still accounts for about 75% of perinatal mortality. Although great strides have been made in the care of premature babies over the past two decades, markedly decreasing mortality, the prevention of premature birth has not been greatly improved.
B B, Gutsche, P, Samuels
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Birth weight and prematurity in Tanzania
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1966The importance of birth weight as an index of nutritional status is discussed. The birth weights of 7528 singleton live births from 3 hospitals in Tanzania are reported. The overall mean weight for males was 6 lb. 1012 oz. and for females 6 lb. 634 oz.
M C, Latham, J R, Robson
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Thermal management for premature births
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2005Aim. This paper reports an audit of the effect on admission temperatures of using occlusive polyethylene wrap applied immediately after the birth of extremely premature infants.Background. Use of occlusive polyethylene wrap during the early postnatal management of the premature infant reduces evaporative and convective heat loss.Method ...
Sandie, Bredemeyer +2 more
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Social Determinants of Premature Birth
Clinics in PerinatologySocial determinants of health have received increasing attention in public health, leading to increased understanding of how social factors-individual and contextual-shape the health of the mother and infant. However, racial differences in birth outcomes persist, with incomplete explanation for the widening disparity.
Nana, Matoba +3 more
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Ureaplasma urealyticum and Premature Birth
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1993Evidence related to the association of Ureaplasma urealyticum with premature birth is reviewed. U. urealyticum is a common inhabitant in the vagina of pregnant women. It is recovered from the vaginas of approximately 70% of pregnant women. The presence of U. urealyticum in the vagina is not associated with premature birth.
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Premature Children with Birth Asphyxia
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 1964SUMMARYThis paper reports on 41 premature children who showed signs of birth asphyxia and their matched controls, followed up over 10–12 years and investigated clinically, by EEG'S, by school reports and by psychological tests. Results of all these examinations show no statistically significant differences between the children and their controls, but ...
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Oral complications of premature birth
Australian Dental Journal, 1986Abstract— With increasing survival of prematurely‐born infants in recent years it is important to recognize that these children are highly predisposed to developmental dental defects. The pathogenesis of these defects are multifactorial, the major factors being systemic.
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Perspectives in the prevention of premature birth
European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 2004Obstetric and neonatal interventions have improved the survival of preterm infants, but there has not been an equivalent reduction in long-term neurological disability. Thus, some effort must be invested in finding ways of preventing preterm birth. Numerous programmes have been promoted to address the matter of how the frequency of preterm birth could ...
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American Journal of Diseases of Children, 1963
Introduction Until recently, it was considered1-3that premature infants might have an increased possibility of being handicapped but that the total number of such involved children was likely to be small and the severity of handicaps relatively mild or of limited duration.
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Introduction Until recently, it was considered1-3that premature infants might have an increased possibility of being handicapped but that the total number of such involved children was likely to be small and the severity of handicaps relatively mild or of limited duration.
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