Tropical Doctor > Volume 37, Number 4 > Pp. 235-236

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Audit of survival after premature birth

David A Green FRCPCH DMT     Shruti Kumar MBBS     Suman Lata MBBS  

Department of Pediatrics, St Stephens Hospital, Tis Hazari, Delhi 110054, India

Correspondence to: Dr David A Green davidhafiz{at}doctors.org.uk

Locally applicable data on prognosis in neonates of different gestational ages and birth weights is needed both for counselling individual families and for planning departmental resource allocation. We present data from our unit collected over one year on survival to discharge of infants below 32 weeks gestational age and discuss the difficulties of data interpretation in our setting. No infant below 26 weeks gestation survived and mortality at 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31 weeks gestation was 875, 500, 500, 615,158 and 105 per thousand live births, respectively.

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