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Comparison of neonatal intensive care: Trento area versus Vermont Oxford Network
BACKGROUND: S. Chiara hospital is the only neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in the Province of Trento (Italy). It serves a population of about 460000 people with about 5000 infants per year, admitting the totality of the inborn and outborn VLBWI of the province. The aim of this work is to compare...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687545/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19490662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-35-5 |
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author | De Nisi, Giuseppe Berti, Mariarosaria Malossi, Riccardo Pederzini, Fabio Pedrotti, Anna Valente, Alberta |
author_facet | De Nisi, Giuseppe Berti, Mariarosaria Malossi, Riccardo Pederzini, Fabio Pedrotti, Anna Valente, Alberta |
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description | BACKGROUND: S. Chiara hospital is the only neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in the Province of Trento (Italy). It serves a population of about 460000 people with about 5000 infants per year, admitting the totality of the inborn and outborn VLBWI of the province. The aim of this work is to compare mortality, morbidity and neonatal treatment of the very low birth weight infants (VLBWI) of Trento area with those recorded in the Vermont Oxford Network (VON) during 2004. METHODS: In this retrospective analysis, the rates of complications and related treatments reported in VLBWI admitted in the S. Chiara NICU during the period 2000–2005 were compared with those recorded in the VON in 2004. The analysis included both the total populations and different weight groups. RESULTS: The frequency of inborn infants was significantly higher in Trento than in VON: 91% vs 84% (MH 8.56; p-value 0.003). The administration of prenatal steroids (82% vs 74%; MH 7.47 and p-value 0.006) and caesarean section were significantly more frequent in the Trento area than in VON. In Trento significantly more VLBWI with BW ≤ 1000 grams were given surfactant prophylaxis compared with VON and significantly fewer VLBWI in every Trento weight group developed RDS (MH 18.55; p-value 0.00001). Overall rates of complications (CLD, PDA, NEC, IVH) were significantly lower than in the Vermont Oxford Network. In CLD and PDA the differences were marked also in infants weighting less than 1000 grams. Overall rates of PNX, PVL, severe grade of ROP and mortality were similar in the two populations. In Trento, significantly more infants were discharged on human milk than in VON, in both the overall population and in BW sub-groups. CONCLUSION: On the basis of this analysis, a less aggressive therapeutic strategy based on perinatal prevention in global management, such as that employed in Trento area, may be associated with an improvement in clinical outcomes in very low birth weight infants. |
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spelling | pubmed-26875452009-05-30 Comparison of neonatal intensive care: Trento area versus Vermont Oxford Network De Nisi, Giuseppe Berti, Mariarosaria Malossi, Riccardo Pederzini, Fabio Pedrotti, Anna Valente, Alberta Ital J Pediatr Review BACKGROUND: S. Chiara hospital is the only neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in the Province of Trento (Italy). It serves a population of about 460000 people with about 5000 infants per year, admitting the totality of the inborn and outborn VLBWI of the province. The aim of this work is to compare mortality, morbidity and neonatal treatment of the very low birth weight infants (VLBWI) of Trento area with those recorded in the Vermont Oxford Network (VON) during 2004. METHODS: In this retrospective analysis, the rates of complications and related treatments reported in VLBWI admitted in the S. Chiara NICU during the period 2000–2005 were compared with those recorded in the VON in 2004. The analysis included both the total populations and different weight groups. RESULTS: The frequency of inborn infants was significantly higher in Trento than in VON: 91% vs 84% (MH 8.56; p-value 0.003). The administration of prenatal steroids (82% vs 74%; MH 7.47 and p-value 0.006) and caesarean section were significantly more frequent in the Trento area than in VON. In Trento significantly more VLBWI with BW ≤ 1000 grams were given surfactant prophylaxis compared with VON and significantly fewer VLBWI in every Trento weight group developed RDS (MH 18.55; p-value 0.00001). Overall rates of complications (CLD, PDA, NEC, IVH) were significantly lower than in the Vermont Oxford Network. In CLD and PDA the differences were marked also in infants weighting less than 1000 grams. Overall rates of PNX, PVL, severe grade of ROP and mortality were similar in the two populations. In Trento, significantly more infants were discharged on human milk than in VON, in both the overall population and in BW sub-groups. CONCLUSION: On the basis of this analysis, a less aggressive therapeutic strategy based on perinatal prevention in global management, such as that employed in Trento area, may be associated with an improvement in clinical outcomes in very low birth weight infants. BioMed Central 2009-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC2687545/ /pubmed/19490662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-35-5 Text en Copyright © 2009 De Nisi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review De Nisi, Giuseppe Berti, Mariarosaria Malossi, Riccardo Pederzini, Fabio Pedrotti, Anna Valente, Alberta Comparison of neonatal intensive care: Trento area versus Vermont Oxford Network |
title | Comparison of neonatal intensive care: Trento area versus Vermont Oxford Network |
title_full | Comparison of neonatal intensive care: Trento area versus Vermont Oxford Network |
title_fullStr | Comparison of neonatal intensive care: Trento area versus Vermont Oxford Network |
title_full_unstemmed | Comparison of neonatal intensive care: Trento area versus Vermont Oxford Network |
title_short | Comparison of neonatal intensive care: Trento area versus Vermont Oxford Network |
title_sort | comparison of neonatal intensive care: trento area versus vermont oxford network |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687545/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19490662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-35-5 |
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