DESCRIPTIVE STUDY KNOWING THE PATIENTS LOAD IN THE NEONATAL ICU AT THE TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL LAHORE
Journal Title: Indo American Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 4
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Objective: To Know the Number of patients referred to tertiary hospital neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Lahore, disease model and outcome determination. Study Design: A descriptive study Location and duration: The study was performed in Pediatric unit I of Services Hospital, Lahore for the period of one year from February 2016 to February 2017 Method: admission is the result of all newborns' income, and the result is retrospectively reviewed. Results: During the study period, the number of patients admitted was 500. Continuous low birth weight (24.6%) with sepsis showed the highest (19.9%) respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) (18.9%), meconium aspiration syndrome (15.2%),birth asphyxia (17.02) , pneumonia (3.46), neonatal jaundice (9.44%), hyaline injury (3.4%)and congenital malformations (2.8%). 148 of the 500 patients (13.8%) were expired. The majority of the deadlines were due to sepsis (31.75%). Keywords: Descriptive Study, Patients Load, Neonatal ICU, Tertiary Care Hospital.
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