Mortality among neonates having birth asphyxia at neonatal intensive care unit P.M.C.H.

ABSTRACT

To see the outcome of birth asphyxia in tertiary care hospital Nawabshah. Retrospective descriptive study. The study was conducted at neonatal intensive care unit [N.I.C.U] Paediatric ward of People's medical college and hospital Nawabshah from 1[st] January 2010 to 31[st] December 2010. Record of patients who were admitted in N.IC.U was used for data collection. Data regarding sex, gestational age [term and preterm], and outcome [discharge, expired] was collected. During study period 1657 neonates were admitted, of these 1371. Were term infants 286 were preterm infants, there were 1144 males, and 513 Females. Out of 1657, 466 [22%] patients expired, out of these 466 expired patients, 391 [83.9%] were term babies and 75 [16.09%] were preterm. All the patients admitted in our NICU, birth asphyxia was the leading cause of Neonatal admission and mortality. And birth asphyxia stage 3 HIE had the highest mortality