Apnea and low birth weight
Effect of Caffeine on Oxygen Consumption and Metabolic Rate in Very Low Birth Weight Infants With Idiopathic Apnea
... of apnea are common in very low birth weight (VLBW) in- fants; the incidence and severity increase at lower gestational ...of apnea, although the pathogene- sis is not understood ...
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Clinical Effects of l-Carnitine Supplementation on Apnea and Growth in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
... The carnitine-supplemented infants were weaned more quickly from xanthines than the control infants. The caregivers in that study were not blinded to the carnitine supplementation. Based on these observa- tions, we ...
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Safe Transportation of Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants at Hospital Discharge
... No data are available to establish a specific age or neurodevelopmental status at which an infant with re- spiratory compromise who was discharged from the hos- pital in a car bed can safely transition to a semireclined ...
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Immunization of Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants
... or birth weight. Although apnea has not been reported in ELBW infants born at less than 31 weeks’ gestation after the use of DTaP vaccine alone, in conjunction with other routinely recommended ...
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Observation on neonatal apnea in relation to aetiopathogensis and their outcome
... experience apnea of prematurity. 3 Apnea, which is defined as pauses in their breathing ...pattern. Apnea of prematurity is often defined as a cessation of breathing that lasts for at least 20 ...
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Morbidity and mortality pattern of very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight neonates in a tertiary care hospital
... premature birth is Bronchopulmonary dysplasia which is defined as a need for supplemental oxygen or ventilatory support at 36 weeks post last menstrual period ...is apnea of prematurity (AOP) which is ...
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Apnea in Children Hospitalized With Bronchiolitis
... admission. Birth weight was not included as a risk ...the low overall incidence of apnea and the low speci fi city of these risk ...without apnea had 1 of these characteristics, ...
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An epidemiological survey on low birth weight infants in China and analysis of outcomes of full term low birth weight infants
... LBW is caused by two leading factors in China, PTB and intrauterine growth restriction. In developed coun- tries, it is caused mainly by PTB; however, in developing countries the main cause is intrauterine growth ...
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Detection of Low Birth Weight Newborns by Foot Length as Prox-measure for Birth Weight
... The paediterican always showed interest towards the development of foetal growth, and the developed parameters are differ from the etiological determinants of gestational duration. It has been noted that the maternal ...
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Improving Growth of Very Low Birth Weight Infants in the First 28 Days
... Regression to the mean, reduced use of postnatal steroids and a temporal trend in weight gain are competing explanations for our success. We note from the 1999 and 2000 Vermont Oxford annual re- ports that with no ...
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... The study is resourceful for current ongoing community and institution based interventions to address the issues based on the evidences for causing LBW, specifically for planners and managers to be considered for ...
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Lactobezoar in the Low-Birth-Weight Infant
... Of seven low-birth-weight infants who devel- oped lactobezoars following enteric feeding, six were fed with formulas specifically designed for the low-birth-weight infant. Infants fed th[r] ...
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CARE OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT NEWBORN
... environment. Birth weight is the single most important marker of adverse perinatal, neonatal and infantile ...normal birth weight ...with Low birth weight newborn can be ...
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Low birth weight: causes and consequences
... Maternal factors can be related to insufficient substrate supply to the fetus during development due to many different causes such as reduced maternal food intake, maternal systemic diseases such as HT and diabetes, ...
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Targeted Short-Term Fluconazole Prophylaxis Among Very Low Birth Weight and Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants
... RESULTS. IFI was observed for 13 (6.3%) of 206 infants in the control epoch and 2 (1.1%) of 178 in the fluconazole epoch, with a common odds ratio of 0.166. Logistic regression analysis taking into account all published ...
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Digole
... of low birth weight babies was seen among non agricultural laborer followed by agricultural laborer ...have low wedges, poor purchasing power, poor diet, high physical work, poor access to ...
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Effects of total parenteral nutrition on postnatal growth in very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight newborns
... The nutritional need of a premature infant is characteristically dependent upon parenteral nutrition (PN) provided during the early postnatal life, especially for very low birth weight (VLBW) infants ...
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Breastmilk Feeding Status and Weight Gain of Low Birth Weight Infants in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
... Breastmilk Feeding Status and Weight Gain of Low Birth Weight Infants in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ORIGINAL ARTICLE Breastmilk Feeding Status and Weight Gain of Low Birth Weight Infants in a Neon[.] ...
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Fat Digestion in Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants: Effect of Addition of Human Milk to Low-Birth-Weight Formula
... or milk substitutes.3 However, even full-term new- born infants do not absorb fat as efficiently as older children or adults.4 This inadequate lipid absorption is attributed to low pancr[r] ...
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Anthropometric measurements at birth as predictor of low birth weight
... detecting low birth weight infant with a sensitivity of 84% and specifity of ...mean birth weight of newborns may be the reason for a slightly higher cut-off point obtained in our ...
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