Some risk factors related to neonatal pneumonia. Vn J Pract Med 2003

ABSTRACT

The study carried on 134 children diagnosed pneumonia immediately after hospitalization and 205 children of control group hospitalised with difference reasons in the same time. The result showed that the age of newborn pneumonia is 10 days, 26.9% of them is 7 days is 73.1%. However, 79.9% of these children were ill before hospitalization <3 days. The risque pneumonia of prematurely children is higher 1.33 times than control group. 83/134 pneumonia children has anamnesis asphyxiated when be born. The delivery time prolonger 18 hours has risque higher 1.59 times than control group. After research, the author showed some related factors direct with newborn pneumonia are asphyxiated, amniotic fluid dirty, delivery time prolong, time of rupture of amniotic membranes long and born prematurely