Subject: early neonatal mortality
Subject: late neonatal mortality
Subject: neonatal mortality
Subject: NICU
Subject: GOC – Skopje
Year: 2020
Type: Article
Title: Neonatal mortality rate at Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic in Skopje in the period of five years in newborns treated at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Author: Bushinoska Ivanova, G
Author: Bushinoska J
Author: Orovcanec N
Abstract: Introduction: Neonatal mortality is a number of neonatal deaths per 1,000 live births in a given year or period. Neonatal mortality is defned as a death in the frst 28 days of life or a neonatal period after delivery. It includes all life born neonates after 22 gestational week of pregnancy and with birth weight over 500 g. Neonatal mortality is divided into early neonatal mortality which count deaths in 0-7 days after delivery, and late neonatal mortality 8-28 days after delivery. AIM: The aim of the study is to present hospital neonatal mortality rate at the GOC-Skopje, among newborns treated at NICU in the neonatal period of 0-28 days after births, in the period of fve years 2013-2017 and to determinate the leading causes of neonatal deaths at NICU. Material and Methods: Retrospective study counts neonatal mortality rate in the early and late neonatal period, as well as the leading causes for neonatal deaths in neonatal period of 0-28 days after delivery at the GOC-Skopje, in the period of 5 years. The data is collected from the Data basis of NICU at GOC-Skopje. Results: Hospital neonatal mortality rate in the 5 years period was 25.6‰, or 25.6 neonatal deaths in the neonatal period. There were 688 neonatal deaths on 26,891 live-born neonates. Neonatal mortality rate in early neonatal period (0-7 days) is – 547 or 20.34‰ of all neonatal deaths in the fve years period. Late neonatal mortality (8-28 days) after delivery was in 141 casesor 5.24‰. The leading causes for neonatal death in newborns treated at NICU were com plications due to prematurity, respiratory distress syndrome and neonatal sepsis. Conclusion: The hospital neonatal mortality rate at GOC-Skopje in fve years period is high, and requires more prospective studies and strategies to reduce neonatal mortality in the future.
Publisher: "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anaesthesia and Reanimation
Relation: Macedonian Journal of Anesthesia
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/11778
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/11778
