Maternal and infant transport program in Louisiana.
The concept of maternal transport has evolved from that of neonatal transport as part of a regionalized perinatal care system. Experience has suggested that perinatal outcome for infants transported before delivery is improved over that for infants transported neonatally. This report describes the initial 2 years' experience of the first such program in Louisiana. When compared with infants transported after delivery, those transported before delivery had a slightly better corrected survival rate (90 versus 87%) and a shorter average stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (11.8 versus 21.4 days), but the differences were not statistically significant as measured by the chi2 test.
D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007902:Length of Stay; D008145:Louisiana; D011247:Pregnancy; D014187:Transportation of Patients