[A 5-year review of neonatal intensive care at the kinderklinik der stadt wien - glanzing, neonatal intensive care centre (author's transl)].
This study deals with clinical results obtained at the neonatal intensive care unit of the Kinderklinik der Stadt Wien - Glanzing since its inception in 1974. An analysis of our newborn cases-admitted from 14 obstetric departments in Vienna and some obstetric departments in Lower Austria and Burgenland soon after birth-points to the fact that prematurity is still the most important risk factor in neonatal mortality. The results show that the prognosis of high-risk newborn infants depends very much on condition in the delivery room following primary resuscitation, the neonatal mortality increases with immaturity, hyaline membrane disease is the most important indication for artificial ventilation of premature infants, 30% of all patients requiring artificial ventilation are fullterm infants; 45% of them suffer from cerebral respiratory dysfunction, the mortality rate in mechanically-ventilated infants could not be significantly decreased over the past years. The consequences are discussed.
D001317:Austria; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D006819:Hyaline Membrane Disease / Q000628:therapy; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D011379:Prognosis; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000379:methods
5 Jahre Intensiv-Neonatologie-Zentrum an der Kinderklinik de Stadt Wein - Glanzing.