Apgar score and neonatal mortality in a hospital located in the southern area of São Paulo City, Brazil

Abstract

Objective: To correlate the Apgar score, and neonatal mortality andits causes at a hospital located in the southern area of São Paulo City. Methods: A retrospective study performed by analysis of medicalcharts (n=7,094) of all live newborns during the period of 2005 to2009, with data up to 28 days of life in reference to weight, Apgarscore, survival and cause of mortality. Cases were analyzed by theX² test (p 2,499 g. Fetal distress and prematurity were associated withearly neonatal death; malformations and fetal distress to late mortality. The predictive value of death with Apgar 3,000 g group. Conclusions: The Apgar score proved linked to factors both epidemiological and related to attention given to the birth and neonatal mortality, and was associated with extremely low birth weight.

Keywords

• Asphyxia neonatorum
• Neonatal mortality (Public Health)
• Hospital
• public