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Disease Burden of Neonatal Care Unit at Al-Bayda Medical Center Al-Bayda Libya

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العنوان: Disease Burden of Neonatal Care Unit at Al-Bayda Medical Center Al-Bayda Libya
المؤلفون: Kamala O. Younis, Wafa J. Saed
المصدر: مجلة المختار للعلوم, Vol 36, Iss 4 (2021)
بيانات النشر: Omar Al-Mukhtar University, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Neonatal Admission, Outcome, Al-Bayda, Libya, Science
الوصف: This research was conducted to determine the number, disease pattern, and outcome of the patients admitted at the Neonatal Care Unit (NCU) at Al-Bayda medical center (AMC) in Libya. A retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on all neonates admitted to the NCU between January 2008 and December 2008. The collected data include age, gender, mode and site of delivery, number of gestations, maturity, duration of stay, cause of admission, and outcome. Total infants delivered were 10075, 620 (6.1%) of them were admitted to NCU with a (6.15%) admission rate, 56.5% were male and 43.5% were female, of whom 613 (98.9%) were inborn and 519 (83.7%) were term neonates; 523 (84.4%) of total born were by normal vaginal delivery (NVD). 48.7% of total admissions occurred during the first 24 hours of life. The average length of hospital stay for term births was 5.6 days (SD 5.4) and for preterm 8.7 days (SD 8.55). The common causes of admission were neonatal jaundice (29.3%), followed by neonatal infections (17.6%) were prematurity accounts for (16.3%), and respiratory distress (11.1%). The majority of the admitted neonates improved and were discharged 517 (83.4%), 37(6%) left against medical advice (LAMA) and nineteen (3%) were referred to other specialized hospitals for further management. The neonatal mortality rate was 0.4%, and the overall hospital neonatal mortality rate was 7.6%. According to the cause-specific death rate analysis, prematurity was the most common cause of death (29.8%), followed by sepsis (17%) and birth asphyxia (12.8%). In conclusion, neonatal jaundice, infection, and prematurity complications were the leading causes of morbidity in neonates. The case-fatality rate was high for prematurity, sepsis, and birth asphyxia. Most of these etiologies are preventable to some extent by regular prenatal visits, healthy delivery practices, and timely referral to hospitals which can reduce NCU burden and improve outcomes
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2617-2178
2617-2186
Relation: https://omu.edu.ly/journals/index.php/mjsc/article/view/589; https://doaj.org/toc/2617-2178; https://doaj.org/toc/2617-2186
DOI: 10.54172/mjsc.v36i4.589
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/a1d9b272f99846299fb466ad8fcc2f2c
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.1d9b272f99846299fb466ad8fcc2f2c
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:26172178
26172186
DOI:10.54172/mjsc.v36i4.589