Preterm birth rate and survival of neonates of &#8804;1000 g in a secondary care center in San Luis Potosí, México

Diana Magdalena Esparza-Valencia; Juan Carlos Toro-Ortiz; Héctor Gerardo Hernández-Rodríguez; Olivo Herrera-Ortega; Salvador de la Maza-Labastida; José Alfredo Fernández-Lara

2016, Number 10

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Ginecol Obstet Mex 2016; 84 (10)

Preterm birth rate and survival of neonates of ≤1000 g in a secondary care center in San Luis Potosí, México

Esparza-Valencia DM, Toro-Ortiz JC, Hernández-Rodríguez HG, Herrera-Ortega O, De la Maza-Labastida S, Fernández-Lara JA

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ABSTRACT

Methods: Descriptive, retrospective, longitudinal study. We reviewed medical records of the Maternity Unit and the Intensive Neonatal Care Unit from October 2014 to September 2015. We included newborns of ≤1000g who were admitted to the Intensive Neonatal Care Unit.
Results: Of 5462 births, 74 (1.35%) were preterm newborns of ≤1000g. Thirty one of them died during labor or did not received neonatal resuscitation care due to the non viability consideration. The remaining 43 were admitted to the Intensive Neonatal Care Unit, 24 of them were discharged alive, with a 55.8% survival rate.
Conclusion: In our hospital both the prematurity incidence of ≤1000g newborns and the survival rates for the cases that are admitted to the Intensive Neonatal Care Unit are equivalent to the one mentioned in the foreign literature.