Perinatal Sentence Examples

The perinatal unit will provide specialist inpatient care for mothers with mental health problems.

The perinatal morbidity was significantly higher in the GM group.

Home births in England and Wales perinatal mortality according to intended place of delivery.

Figure 2.2 shows the infant, perinatal and neonatal mortality in Lothian, year on year, since 1992.

Every health authority should identify a consultant with a special interest in perinatal psychiatry.

Stroke occurs more frequently in children under age two, and peaks in the perinatal period.

Listeria-An uncommon food-borne, life-threatening pathogen that can cause perinatal infection, which is associated with a high rate of fetal loss (including full-term stillbirths) and serious neonatal disease.

Perinatal morbidity is associated with infections, reactions to anesthesia agents, blood clots, and bleeding.

Grouping causes into those that occur during pregnancy (prenatal), those that happen around the time of birth (perinatal), and those that occur after birth (postnatal), is preferable.

On the other hand, the perinatal mortality rate (the number of late fetal deaths [28 weeks or more gestation] and early neonatal deaths [less than 7 days] per 1,000 live births) remain unchanged.

Perinatal mortality-The number of late fetal deaths, 28 weeks or more gestation, and neonatal deaths that occur in the first seven days.

Interestingly, there has not been a reported reduction in perinatal morbidity in the United States with the use of EFM.

An infection caused by a bacteria or virus that can be passed from a mother to her baby during pregnancy or delivery is called a perinatal infection.

Perinatal infections include bacterial or viral illnesses that can be passed from a mother to her baby either while the baby is still in the uterus or during the delivery process.

Some perinatal infections are sexually transmitted.

Transmission of many perinatal infections occurs during childbirth, particularly in cases when invasive techniques such as episiotomy or artificial rupture of membranes are employed.

The incidence of perinatal infection depends on the causative agent of infection.

Perinatal transmission of group beta streptococcus causes neonatal infection in one to five out of every 1,000 live births, and rubella (German measles), 0.02 out of every 1,000 live births.

In some cases, early detection and treatment of infection can minimize the risk of perinatal transmission.

In 2003, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued revised guidelines for preventing perinatal GBS disease.

In addition, the International Perinatal HIV Group reported in 1999 that elective cesarean section delivery could help reduce vertical transmission of HIV, although it is not without risk to certain women.

However, in many cases, perinatal hospices serve families who know that their baby is going to die either sometime during the pregnancy or shortly after birth.

Now, however, these families can turn to a perinatal hospice for support during a heartbreaking time.

A perinatal hospice is like its adult counterpart in that it seeks to give every dying individual a comfortable and dignified death without deliberately prolonging or shortening the his or her natural life.

Perinatal hospices focus specifically on babies who are dying or who will likely die before, during, or after birth.

In addition to the emotional and practical support already mentioned, a perinatal hospice can provide home care if the baby does survive for a while after birth.

Parents generally prepare a birth plan with the help of perinatal hospice workers that identifies how they'd like the birth and aftercare handled.

Some families choose a hospital for delivery based on the presence of a perinatal hospice program.

Many do have a type of perinatal support group for those who lost a child to miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death.If you don't feel comfortable sharing with others in person about your loss, you can always turn to the Internet.

The greatest number of RCTs were in oncology and perinatal epidemiology.