Sierra BG, Mezquita OC, Falcón AE

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Objective: To determine the mortality of the newborn with ‹ 1,500 grams of weight in our intensive care unit, estratified for the clinical risk index for babies.
Design: Prolective descriptive cohort.
Methods: We determine gestational age, weight, congenital malformations presents, and in the first 12 hours of life the maximum excess base, the minimum and the maximum inspired fraction of oxigen and the newborn were distributed at one of the four categories of the clinical risk index for babies. And was registered the condition at the unit exit.
Results: There were 24 females and 16 males in the period of the 16-february-1995 at 15 february-1996, with gestational age between 26-34 weeks and weight between 675-1500 grams. The mortality was for:
Clinical risk index for babies 0-5 points (11 patients): 0.0%
Clinical risk index for babies 6-10 points (19 patients): 15.7%
Clinical risk index for babies 11-15 points (8 patients): 62.5%
Clinical risk index for babies › 15 points (2 patients): 100.0%.
Conclusions: The mortality for ‹ 1,500 grams babies, estratiffied for the clinical risk index for babies, is similar reported in the literature for the neonatal intensive care units.

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