Premature birth is a significant cause of infant and child morbidity and mortality. In the United
States, the premature birth rate, which had steadily increased during the 1990s and early …

Background Decisions regarding whether to administer intensive care to extremely
premature infants are often based on gestational age alone. However, other factors also …

Significant advances in perinatology and neonatology in the last decade have resulted in
increased survival of extremely premature infants. Survival rates for infants born in tertiary …

Advances in antenatal medicine and neonatal intensive care, including more aggressive
delivery room resuscitation, surfactant use, antenatal corticosteroid utilization, improved …

OBJECTIVES: To assess the rates of mortality and major morbidity among extremely preterm
infants born in California and to examine the rates of neonatal interventions and timing of …

Objective. To determine outcomes, in terms of perinatal and early death, need for treatment,
and morbidity at the time of discharge home, among extremely preterm infants. Design. A …

Obstetric decisions regarding extremely premature infants are based in part on their long-
term prognosis. This review pools data from perinatal center reports to update mortality and …

BACKGROUND: Newborns who are 35 to 36 weeks gestation comprise 7.0% of all live
births and 58.3% of all premature infants in the United States. They have been studied much …

A significant increase in preterm births (those born< 37 weeks of gestation) from 10.62% to
12.73% of all births occurred between 1990 and 2005. 1 Throughout this time, infants born …

Clinical Outcomes and Cost of the Moderately Preterm Infant : Advances in Neonatal Care
Clinical Outcomes and Cost of the Moderately Preterm Infant : Advances in Neonatal Care Log …