[RESEARCH] Survival of extremely premature babies in a geographically defined populat

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[RESEARCH] Survival of extremely premature babies in a geographically defined populat - 09-05-2008, 01:02 AM

Objective To assess changes in survival for infants born before 26 completed weeks of gestation.
Design Prospective cohort study in a geographically defined population.
Setting Former Trent health region of the United Kingdom.
Subjects All infants born at 22+0 to 25+6 weeks’ gestation to mothers living in the region. Terminations were excluded but all other births of babies alive at the onset of labour or the delivery process were included.
Main outcome measures Outcome for all infants was categorised as stillbirth, death without admission to neonatal intensivecare, death before discharge from neonatal intensivecare, and survival to discharge home in two time periods: 1994-9 and 2000-5 inclusive.

Results The proportion of infants dying in delivery rooms was similar in the two periods, but a significant improvement was seen in the number of infants surviving to discharge (P

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