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Results:

A total of 100 infants were enrolled in the study. The mean gestational age and the mean birth weight were 37.5±1.8 weeks and 2800±605 g, respectively. The reasons for neonate transfer were respiratory diseases (58%), need for surgery (21%), central nervous system diseases (9%), acute kidney injury (4%), fulminant sepsis (6%), and pathologic jaundice (2%). The mean time of transfer was 84±42 min, being more than 120 min in 17% of the infants. Clinical complications occurred in 32% of the newborns with hypotension (18%) and hypothermia (9%) as the most common clinical complications and acidosis and hypercapnia as the most common laboratory abnormalities caused by transfer. Univariate analysis to evaluate the risk factors associated with complications revealed that gestational age of< 37 weeks (preterm), mean birth weight, and intubation before transfer had a significant association with …