Perinatal sentence example
perinatal
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.Advertisement