الفهرس 
THE HIGH RISK NEWBORNOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The newborn infant may be exposed to a number of critical situations that may be associated with increased morbidity if not mortality.
Care of the newborn has gone through dramatic improvement over the last fifteen years, this decreased neonatal mortality in the developed countries to reach 11 per 1000, but yet in developing countries the rate of decrease is not so evident as it reached 57 per 1000.
The aim of this study was designed to review the changes in morbidity and mortality rates over the last fifteen years in NICU of Ain Shams University Hospitals as well as to identify, analyze and evaluate various risk factors. Measures will be implemented in order to improve the neonatal morbidity and mortality rates.
The study was carried on along the period of fifteen years from January the 1st 1992 till December the 31st 2007, in both NICUs (Pediatric and Obstetric units) in Ain Shams University Hospitals. The study included 14178 high risk neonates admitted in both units.
Respiratory distress is the major, serious, and most common cause of neonatal mortality. Neonatal septicemia is the second common cause of death in both NICU, neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia is on the other had the most favorable survival rate (90.7%).