Table 1 Characteristics of VBLW infants
From: A review of delivery room resuscitation in very low birth weight infants in a middle income country
Characteristic | n/N | Percent |
|---|---|---|
Five minute Apgar <6 | 221/1490 | 14.8 |
Early onset sepsis (<3 days) | 62/1423 | 4.4 |
Grade 3 or 4 intraventricular haemorrhage | 49/774 | 6.3 |
Hyperglycaemia | 277/1436 | 19.3 |
Hypoglycaemia | 158/1436 | 11.0 |
Metabolic acidosis | 93/1436 | 6.5 |
Pneumothorax | 6/1418 | 0.4 |
Respiratory distress syndrome | 1260/1430 | 88.1 |
Surfactant therapy at any time | 1064/1511 | 70.4 |
Pulmonary haemorrhage | 22/1436 | 1.5 |
Nasal CPAP | 986/1390 | 70.9 |
Mechanical ventilation | 231/1359 | 17.0 |
Patent ductus arteriosus | 125/1419 | 8.8 |
Retinopathy of prematurity stage 3 or 4 | 14/411 | 3.4 |
Oxygen on day 28 | 340/1294 | 26.3 |
Steroids for chronic lung disease | 195/1299 | 15.0 |
Necrotising enterocolitis grade 2 or 3 | 100/1423 | 7.0 |
Late onset sepsis (>3 days) | 396/1424 | 27.8 |
Cystic Periventricular leukomalacia | 10/1019 | 1.0 |