Trends in Care Practices, Morbidity, and Mortality of Extremely Preterm Neonates, 1993-2012.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Extremely preterm infants contribute disproportionately to neonatal morbidity and mortality.

Objective

To review 20-year trends in maternal/neonatal care, complications, and mortality among extremely preterm infants born at Neonatal Research Network centers.

Design, setting, participants

Prospective registry of 34,636 infants, 22 to 28 weeks' gestation, birth weight of 401 to 1500 g, and born at 26 network centers between 1993 and 2012.

Exposures

Extremely preterm birth.

Main outcomes and measures

Maternal/neonatal care, morbidities, and survival. Major morbidities, reported for infants who survived more than 12 hours, were severe necrotizing enterocolitis, infection, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, severe intracranial hemorrhage, cystic periventr

SUBMITTER: Stoll BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4787615 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature