Nora Switchenko, Vivek Shukla, Musaku Mwenechanya, Elwyn Chomba, Archana Patel, Patricia L Hibberd, Namasivayam Ambalavanan, Lester Figueroa, Manolo Mazariegos, Nancy F Krebs, Shivaprasad S Goudar, Richard Derman, Fabian Esamai, Edward A Liechty, Sheri Bucher, Sarah Saleem, Robert L Goldenberg, Adrien Lokangaka, Antoinette Tshefu, Carl L Bose, Marion Koso-Thomas, Sylvia Tan, Tracy Nolen, Elizabeth M McClure, Waldemar A Carlo
BACKGROUND: Newborns with hypoxemia often require life-saving respiratory support. In low-resource settings, it is unknown if respiratory support is delivered more frequently to term infants or preterm infants. We hypothesized that in a registry-based birth cohort in 105 geographic areas in seven low- and middle-income countries, more term newborns received respiratory support than preterm newborns. METHODS: This is a hypothesis-driven observational study based on prospectively collected data from the Maternal and Newborn Health Registry of the NICHD Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research...
December 4, 2023: Neonatology