FACTORS INFLUENCING SURVIVAL AND MORBIDITY WITH VERY LOW-BIRTH-WEIGHT DELIVERY
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 62 (5), 550-555
Abstract
Factors influencing survival and morbidity in a group of 214 consecutively delivered very-low-birth-weight [human] infants (500-1500 g) are examined. The perinatal mortality was 313/1000 births. Of 185 live-born, congenitally normal infants, 133 (72%) were discharged alive. Respiratory distress syndrome was the most common form of significant morbidity, occurring in 114 infants (62%). Intraventricular hemorrhage was diagnosed in 38 (21%) of the infants. Neither survival nor morbidity was influenced by the mode of delivery. The current trend of a liberalized policy of cesarean section for the very-low-birth-weight delivery is questioned.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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