METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE TRANSPORTATION OF THE NEWBORNS WITH LOW AND EXTREMELY LOW WEIGHT

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of transportation improvement of the children with low and extremely low birth weight, who were born at the obstetrical clinics of the I–II levels and are transferred to the intensive care units of a diversified pediatric hospital in order to render highly qualified medical care. Methodological approaches to the transportation of such children, including case-records of transportation, indications and contraindications and health state of newborns, are developed by the authors. The efficacy of complex approach to the newborns with low and extremely low birth weight transportation were expressed as the decrease in children mortality from 8,5 to 4,1% per 1000 newborns in the Perm territory.

Keywords

• children
• transportation
• extremely low birth weight
• low birth weight
• health state
• mortality.